6/10/2023 0 Comments Dura by Myung Mi Kim![]() Each disjunctive, incantatory verse-paragraph of the long middle section, ""Thirty and Five Books,"" suggests a story: ""Percussive/ In the L.A. ![]() The mythical first section, ""Cosmography,"" sets the stage for her reading of history's crumbling codex, a ""False vocalization of the consonantal text"" and a ""Transcription barely permeable,"" which is finally ""The beginning of things."" The next three sections collate cryptic tracings of the march of trade and ""civilization"" across the oceans: ""Swag drum/ Inland filth/ Surmise commodity,"" Kim writes. Building on the achievements of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Susan Howe, Kim continues here to engage the reader in re-witnessing this morally arid landscape. ![]() With the small press titles Under Flag (1992) and The Bounty (1996) Kim astonished readers in the know with passionate, formally investigative cataloguings of colonialism, war and rampant capital in the domestic and public spheres. ![]()
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