Under Flag

By Myung Mi Kim

Poetry. Available again. One is shaken by this severe and quiet telling... Myung Mi Kim's language 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932716490
• ISBN13: 9780932716491
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Kelsey Street Press
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 50.0" x 75.0"