In UNDER FLAG, winner of the 1991 Multicultural Publishers Book Award, Myung Mi Kim writes in a stark, unflinching voice that alternately drives to the core of painful subject matter and backs off to let beauty speak for itself: "Save the water from rinsing rice for sleek hair / This is what the young women are told, then they're told / Cut off this hair that cedar combs combed / Empty straw sacks and hide under them / Enemy soldiers are approaching..." The cumulative effect is, according to Ammiel Alcalay, a poetics which resists being neutralized or categorized. "Myung Mi Kim's language is pure and commanding and brings us to a place of grieving we have needed to acknowledge"-Kathleen Fraser.

Under Flag

Literature & Fiction

Myung Mi Kim

Poetry

Kelsey Street Pr

Sphericity

Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei

Sphericity (Signed Edition)

Tuttle, Richard

Wright, C.D. / Luster, Deborah (photographs). Just Whistle: A Valentine. Berkeley, Kelsey St. Press, 1993. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. 55 pages. Original softcover in protective mylar. Near fine condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author. With her opening words, Wright ( String Light ) introduces the body, alive, not dead but dormant. A few lines later, the body is asked to take off its panties. This sensual image of the would-be naked female pervades the volume, as the poet deftly uses repetition and slight variation to keep readers attentive to what might otherwise be a difficult book to follow. The work is predominantly in prose-poem form, and some of the clearest insights into Wright's process are contained within structured line breaks. Thus she looks longingly back at the old days, when bodies were naked, and insists that the same body that had refused to remove its panties has the right to remain naked. The body becomes pregnant; the moment of giving birth is hauntingly articulated: pressure of rock on the chest . . . tremendous fall of rock. Later, the nondescript voice says there was something about a country drive, a gas station, clothes found in weeds--alluding to rape and murder. While the structure of this long cyclical poem demonstrates Wright's affinities with the Language poets, her work might best be understood alongside female performance artists who direct attention to the body. (Amazon)

Just Whistle: A Valentine

Wright, C.D.

"Endocrinology" is a beautifully realized, uniquely collaborative book incorporating Berssenbrugge's inquiring words tn both typographic and handwritten form within the visual environment created by Smith's textural, organically-derived drawings. "Hormones are molecules, material, invisible. // Their flow is random, mesh through which the body is sensed, not an image.

Endocrinology: poetry

poetry & drawings in collaborative artists' book

Endocrinology

Smith, Kiki

eleven long poems, cover art by Richard Tuttle

Four-Year-Old Girl

Poetry. "One is shaken by this severe and quiet telling... Myung Mi Kim's languange is pure and commanding and brings us to a place of grieving we have needed to acknowledge"--Kathleen Fraser. In UNDER FLAG, winner of the 1991 Multicultural Publishers Book Award, Myung Mi Kim writes in a stark, unflinching voice that alternately drives to the core of painful subject matter and backs off to let beauty speak for itself: "Save the water from rinsing rice for sleek hair / This is what the young women are told, then they're told / Cut off this hair that cedar combs combed / Empty straw sacks and hide under them / Enemy soldiers are approaching..." ("Body As One As History"). The cumulative effect is, according to Ammiel Alcalay, "a poetics which resists being neutralized or categorized.""'Beset by borders conquered, disfigured...' One is shaken by this severe and quiet telling. Not since Oppen, has the eroding presence of war on the wholeness of human existence been so vividly located. But the construction of perspective has shifted from male to female, occupier to occupied. Myung Mi Kim's languange is pure and commanding and brings us to a place of grieving we have needed to acknowledge." Kathleen Fraser"

Kim, Myung Mi

Cultural Writing. From one of our most esteemed contemporary poets, a collection of essays about reading and poetics, written over many decades, and touching on many centuries. "We expect poets to give a first-hand account of what poetry is. But some poets, when they write criticism, produce a kind of prose that is itself on the verge of being poetry. Valery, Stevens and Marianne Moore belong to this "visionary company." And so does Barbara Guest, whose writings on poetry, collected here, are among the most inspiring works of their kind. It is a deep pleasure to know that such writing can still exist" --John Ashbery.

Forces of Imagination: Writing on Writing

Barbara Guest

History & Criticism

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Under Flag

Sphericity

Sphericity (Signed Edition)

Just Whistle: A Valentine

Endocrinology: poetry

Endocrinology

Four-Year-Old Girl

Under Flag

Forces of Imagination: Writing on Writing