Paper Pavilion
AUTHOR
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
Paper Pavilion captures the theme of transnational adoption and a powerful search for a personal history and identity from Korea to America.
Reviews
“Dobbs is an astonishing poet. The poetry in Paper Pavilion is by turns lyric and incisive, operatic and sweeping. There is a resonant passion that fills every page. With this heartbreaking and exhilarating debut, Dobbs has established herself as one of the most compelling and important poets of her generation.”
—David St. John
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs is a poet, critic, essayist, and associate professor of creative writing at St. Olaf College. Her books include Paper Pavilion (White Pine Press Poetry Prize 2007), Interrogation Room (White Pine Press 2018), and the chapbooks Notes from a Missing Person (Essay Press 2015) and the German translated Necro Citizens (forthcoming). A recipient of grants from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Minnesota State Arts Board among others, she is currently co-editing an anthology of autocritical writing on kinship. www.jkwondobbs.com.