These poems are taken from Lkhagvasüren Lamjav’s latest book, published in Mongolian in 2019, Үндэс (Root). Throughout this collection, she uses lyrical poetry to reflect on living and raising a family in the central Mongolian industrial mining city of Erdenet.
Vengeance, Norov Dalkhaa
Norov Dalkhaa weaves a Mongolian Buddhist folk legend that dogs have the reincarnated souls of humans into an urban parable of sex, jealousy, and violence.
Translated by Sainbayar Gundsambuu and edited by KG Hutchins