Antibody, Elane Kim's debut collection, pays vivid, clarifying attention to the sensory world and family histories. Meditating on acts of care, science, light, translation, girlhood, and Korean-American identity, Kim offers poetry as a safeguard against forgetting, a hedge against devastation. Reaching for and through the vocabulary of grief, these elegiac poems hold fiercely to memories of a departed mother. For the speakers in this book, language and the sharing of language offer connection to a time before the body knew loss.
Elane Kim is a Korean American writer from California. The editor-in-chief of Gaia Lit, she is the recipient of the 2024 Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry, the winner of the 2021 Columbia Journal Winter Poetry Contest, and a Davidson Fellow in Literature. Her writing can be found in Poetry, Narrative Magazine, One Teen Story, and more. She is the author of the chapbook Postcards (Bull City Press, 2022) and a student at Harvard College.
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