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Dura

Conceived as one poem, Myung Mi Kim's Dura is a whirling experimental symphony of images, forms and rhythms assembled and juxtaposed to translate the experience and gestures of the Korean immigrant woman surviving in America at the end of the twentieth century. Its language negotiates a past — "How was it to be the first arrivals in rows and columns" — as well as a present — "A perceiver without a state", and has already gained Kim recognition as among the most moving and important "translators" in contemporary poetry.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 108
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781557132925
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 1998