In a dream, whether or not one sees apples in one’s dreams may prove a matter of life or death. In a dream, a wrong step may mean a fall into a frozen river. In a poem informed by dreams, dead fish may resemble cherry blossoms, and events in and along a river may offer, as they do in Hyesoon Kim’s poem “A Way to Read the Morning.”
Asia Literary Review 23 (Spring 2012). Korea issue.