![]() ![]() ![]() On the other hand, it is to see how Myung articulates and re-imagines her poetic space in terms of negativity and betweenness. ![]() This work, on the one hand, is to re-locate her in the poetic tradition of American poetry such as Language Poetry Movement. To get over the limit of critical stance so often woven with ethnic poetry, this essay focuses on the notion of space, from the capitalistic everyday space where her poems are born to the space on a page where her poetic language appears as a material entity, and thus tries to expand the scope of her criticism into much wider recognition embedded with cultural politics and poetics, which her poetry deserves. The critical venue on her accordingly has usually been focused on her biographical aspects within the frame of ethnicity and identity politics. Born in 1958 in Seoul, Korea, and then moving to the States at the age of 9, Myung has been considered as a poet representing the diasporic experience of a 1.5 generation Korean American. This essay explores the notion of space and its cultural politics in Myung Mi Kim`s poetry. ![]()
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