Reviews

Under Flag by Myung Mi Kim

spacestationtrustfund's review

4.0

Mostly, we cross bridges we did not see being built

There are only nine poems in this collection: "And Sing We," "Under Flag," "Food, Shelter, Clothing," "Into Such Assembly," "Arrival Which Is Not an Arrival," "Body as One as History," "Demarcation," "These Fishing," and "From the Sea on to the Land." But, especially when taken together, these poems are like organs: visceral, gutting, eerily lyrical. If you're a fan of The Waste Land, Ariel, Howl, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, A Cruelty Special to Our Species, Hairdo, The Lost Lunar Baedeker, Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me, Cruelty & Killing Floor, Toxicon and Arachne, etc., you'd probably be into Myung Mi Kim's poetry as well.

ssohn's review against another edition

5.0

Near and dear to my heart. Myung Mi Kim's poetry always astonishes with its linguistically dense verve. Under Flag is the first of many poetry collections that I always return to when I need to fall in love again with the way language twists and turns on the tongue and how meaning can unfix itself in the trappings of so-called fluencies.