Commons (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Myung Mi Kim
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, Suffering, Exile or expatriates, Immigration or emigration, War, Developing countries, English language, Names, Korea or Koreans, Hunger
Myung Mi Kim’s fourth collection of poetry, Commons, challenges the reader to reflect on the very way in which language operates to create meaning and how free association influences human thought processes. The poems are minimalist and always require attentive reading in order to catch their nuances of meaning. Most are set in the contemporary world in places reminiscent of America or South Korea, or at least of a developing country which has seen its share of bloodshed and hunger. Kim offers the reader a beautiful microcosm of language sounds, word juxtapositions, and...
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