Commons - Myung Mi Kim

Myung Mi Kims Commons Weighs On The Most Sensitive Of Scales The Minute Grains Of Daily Life In Both Peace And War, Registering As Very Few Works Of Literature Have Done Our Common Burden Of Being Subject To History. Abstracting Colonization, War, Immigration, Disease, And First-language Loss Until Only Sparse Phrases Remain, Kim Takes On The Anguish And Displacement Of Those Whose Lives Are Embedded In History.kims Blank Spaces Are Loaded Silences: Openings Through Which Readers Enter The Text And Find Their Way. These Silences Reveal Gaps In Memory And Articulate Experiences That Will Not Translate Into Language At All.