However tenuous the connection may be, I share this in common with Celan: my choice of language as a writer is interwoven with discomfort regarding my identity. Each section ends with the word “snow,” as if all memories led to one vanishing point. That does not exist, he would correct me.” But why is it that the past weighs so much and insists on staying? Inkyoo Lee is a Korean poet and an MFA candidate at New York University, where he is a translations editor for Washington Square Review. He earned a BA in philosophy from University College London and attended the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop.