Into the Cyclorama

ISBN-13: 9781930508378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 80 str.

Annie Kim

Opis

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Winner of the 2015 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Every history has its holes, every landscape its vanishing point. Fathers and brothers disappear. A bronze helmet winds across centuries from Olympia to Berlin to Seoul. Fish bones turn to thorns in the native tongue. In these poems that explore identity, family, and the hunger to know what can't be known, we discover both vividly recreated scenes and the rips in the canvas. We enter works like the 19th-century Gettysburg Cyclorama at the heart of this book, asking: What art can we make out of violence? What shape from loss? Like snow that leaves no trace in the photographed garden, INTO THE CYCLORAMA answers: Form is everything, even at its most transient.

"Kim tinkers with words but also with music. We can see her knowledge of music in poems like 'Prelude and Fugue' and 'Cyclorama, ' and also her use of classical technique: lines repeated and improved with slight changes, deepening the meaning...The cyclorama sees all, its vision extending beyond time and space, mapping through America, Japan, Korea, and from WWII until the present."--Jennifer van Alstyne, Rain Taxi