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Current format, Book, 2009, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsIn Penury, Myung Mi Kim probes sanctioned norms of cognition by breaking communication into its most discrete components. With these irruptions and suspensions, she writes into extremes of forced loss, violence, and impoverishment. Exposing latent relations in sound and sense, Kim proposes how new ethical awareness can be encountered where the word and its meaning/s are formed. Here, language is not offered as transparent communication of ideas, but as testament to and disruption of oppressive dominant concepts and cultural practices. "Penury" means poverty, but in this text's radical relation to lack, we hear the most elemental and active forms of change.
Breaking communication into its most discrete components, this collection of poems deeply examines forced loss, violence, and impoverishment. Exposing hidden relations in sound and sense, the language in this anthology communicates more than just ideas by testifying to the oppressive concepts and cultural practices that are dominant in today’s society. While the title of this expressive compilation means poverty, its content articulates the need for change.
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