Dark archive: The purpose of a dark archive is to function as a repository for information that can be used as a failsafe during disaster recovery.<br /><br />Laura Mullen’s fourth collection is a sequence of beautifully interrelated poems that explores how to accurately represent the reality of change and loss. Mullen pinpoints what is at stake: the possibility of communication and connection—and the hope of intimacy. Invoking Wordsworth’s «I wandered lonely as a cloud,» she pushes...
Myung Mi Kim's <I>Commons </I>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.<br /><br />Kim's blank spaces are loaded...
