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What Have You Done to Our Ears to Make Us Hear Echoes?
Arlene Kim
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Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 171.
In her stunning debut poetry collection, What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?, Arlene Kim confronts the ways in which language mythologizes memory and, thus, exiles us from our own true histories. Juxtaposing formal choices and dreamlike details, Kim explores the entangled myths that accompany the experience of immigration--the abandoned country known only through stories, the new country into which the immigrant family must wander ever deeper, and the numerous points where these narratives intertwine. Sharing ground with Randall Jarrell's later poems, and drawing on a dizzying array of sources--including Grimm's Fairy Tales, Korean ... Read more
In her stunning debut poetry collection, What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?, Arlene Kim confronts the ways in which language mythologizes memory and, thus, exiles us from our own true histories. Juxtaposing formal choices and dreamlike details, Kim explores the entangled myths that accompany the experience of immigration--the abandoned country known only through stories, the new country into which the immigrant family must wander ever deeper, and the numerous points where these narratives intertwine. Sharing ground with Randall Jarrell's later poems, and drawing on a dizzying array of sources--including Grimm's Fairy Tales, Korean ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9781571314406
SKU
V9781571314406
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99-15
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Winner of the 2012 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation