About this title: Myung Mi Kim's Commons weighs on the most sensitive of scales the minute grains of daily life in both peace and war, registering as very few works of literature have done our common burden of being subject to history. Abstracting colonization, war, immigration, disease, and first-language loss until only sparse phrases remain, Kim takes on the anguish and displacement of those whose lives are embedded in history. Kim's blank spaces are loaded silences: openings through which readers enter the text and find their way. These silences reveal gaps in memory and articulate experiences that will ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2002-03-04
ISBN-13:9780520231313ISBN:0520231317
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13:9780520231443ISBN:0520231449
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780520231443ISBN:0520231449
Description: New. "The poems in Commons are at once global and intensely personal and emotional. An immensely talented poet, Myung Mi Kim loves language-its internal rhymes, alliterations, and diverse rhythms. Caught off guard by the beauty and precision of Kim's la... read more
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