Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

Commons / / Myung Mi Kim



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Kim Myung Mi <1957-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Commons / / Myung Mi Kim Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2002
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (121 p.)
Disciplina: 811/.54
Soggetto topico: Korean Americans
Immigrants
Soggetto geografico: Korea Poetry
Soggetto non controllato: american poetry
colonial
colonies
colonization
confessional
conversation
creative writing
disease
english poetry
first language
historical
history
immigrant poetry
immigration
language loss
life story
literature
loaded silence
lyric poetry
lyric
peace
personal
poetic
poetics
poetry collection
poetry
true story
war
wartime
writing poetry
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- EXORDIUM -- LAMENTA -- WORKS -- POLLEN FOSSIL RECORD
Sommario/riassunto: 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 not translate into language at all. Her words retrieve the past in much the same way the human mind does: an image sparks another image, a scent, the sound of bombs, or conversation. These silences and pauses give the poems their structure.Commons's fragmented lyric pushes the reader to question the construction of the poem. Identity surfaces, sinks back, then rises again. On this shifting ground, Kim creates meaning through juxtaposed fragments. Her verse, with its stops and starts, its austere yet rich images, offers splinters of testimony and objection. It negotiates a constantly changing world, scavenging through scraps of experience, spaces around words, and remnants of emotion for a language that enfolds the enormity of what we cannot express.
Titolo autorizzato: Commons  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-49217-1
9786613587404
0-520-92784-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809542303321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: New California poetry.