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Informationen zum Autor Myung Mi Kim is Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. Her three previous books of poetry are Under Flag! winner of the 1991 Multicultural Publishers Book Award! The Bounty (1996)! and Dura (1998). Klappentext "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 language and the exquisite images she so deftly conjures! we are drawn unwittingly into a web of fragmentary memories that subvert what we think we know about the violent history that haunts her and never ceases to demand recognition."-Elaine Kim! author of Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context! and co-editor of Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism Zusammenfassung Myung Mi Kim's poetry details the minute grains of daily life in both peace and war, and registers our common burden of being subject to history. Abstracting colonization, war, immigration, disease and first-language loss, Kim takes on the displacement of those whose lives are embedded in history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Exordium Lamenta Works Pollen Fossil Record
