A recent assignment I enjoyed doing. A conflation of sorts. Using the essay Under Flag written by Zhou Xiaojung in response to the poet Myung Mi Kim's assortment of work, I have manipulated the former text, sheared it down, and re-wound it into a piece of poetry-prose which imitates the unique style belonging to Kim.
For reference, I have included two links which further describe this particular text and the authors that have influenced it.
Under Flag: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/kim/xiaojing.html
Myung Mi Kim: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/kim/
My gratitude to both authors for their inspiration.
Immigrants' identities in a land they claim no "natural" bond
Otherness contaminates
Dominant language disturbs U.S. nation-space
Homogeneity of the... Refusing
Discourse, or reduced defined as the opposite of norm
Orientalist the Same by assimilationist
Alterity of diaspora subjects I
Kim's poems resists
Being transformed in the process of becoming
Can you read and write English? Yes______. No______.
Write
Down
English
A dog in the road. It is raining.
Do you renounce allegiance to any other country but this?
Disjunctive poetry
Disrupts binary relations
In terms of "speed, "duration," and "music"
Majority minority cultures.
Of English language inflected
"foreign" accents.
In the opening displaced English enact Korean
Fragmentary memories of home of dislocation
Blank spaces
Create disruption
Isolation
And exile.
Intertwined history War, the invasion.
Resistance
Is materialized in contaminated English.
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/kim/
For reference, I have included two links which further describe this particular text and the authors that have influenced it.
Under Flag: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/kim/xiaojing.html
Myung Mi Kim: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/kim/
My gratitude to both authors for their inspiration.
Immigrants' identities in a land they claim no "natural" bond
Otherness contaminates
Dominant language disturbs U.S. nation-space
Homogeneity of the... Refusing
Discourse, or reduced defined as the opposite of norm
Orientalist the Same by assimilationist
Alterity of diaspora subjects I
Kim's poems resists
Being transformed in the process of becoming
Can you read and write English? Yes______. No______.
Write
Down
English
A dog in the road. It is raining.
Do you renounce allegiance to any other country but this?
Disjunctive poetry
Disrupts binary relations
In terms of "speed, "duration," and "music"
Majority minority cultures.
Of English language inflected
"foreign" accents.
In the opening displaced English enact Korean
Fragmentary memories of home of dislocation
Blank spaces
Create disruption
Isolation
And exile.
Intertwined history War, the invasion.
Resistance
Is materialized in contaminated English.
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/kim/
