Sad People Who Smoke

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View this email in your browser THE REVIEW'S REVIEW Sad People Who Smoke: On Mary Robison Adam Wilson "Her entire oeuvre feels almost Buddhist in its attention to the now." ON POETRY Making of a Poem: Kim Hyesoon and Cindy Juyoung Ok on "Person Walking Backward" Kim Hyesoon and Cindy Juyoung Ok "The poem is a poem about time, two types of time." A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR The Ringo Starr of the Haiku Pantheon Srikanth Reddy "If you attended school in the U.S. like I did, the first poem you wrote as a child was, more likely than not, some version of the Japanese haiku." ON TRANSLATION Five Mixed Metaphors for Translation Daisy Rockwell "Translation is a monster." EAT YOUR WORDS Cooking Peppermint Chiffon Pie with Flannery O'Connor Valerie Stivers "Flannery O'Connor's favorite meal at the Sanford House restaurant in Milledgeville, Georgia was fried shrimp and peppermint chiffon pie." Copyright © 2024 The Paris Review. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: The Paris Review 544 West 27th Street 3rd Floor New York, New York 10001 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe if you must.