Description
Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. The orphan at the center of LITANY FOR THE LONG MOMENT is without homeland and without language. In three linked lyric essays, Arnold attempts to claim her own linguistic, cultural, and aesthetic lineage. Born in Korea and adopted to the US as a child, she explores the interconnectedness of language and identity through the lens of migration and cultural rupture. Invoking artists, writers, and thinkers—Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Francesca Woodman, Susan Sontag, among others—LITANY FOR THE LONG MOMENT interweaves personal documents, images, and critical texts as a means to examine loss and longing.
Author Bio
Mary-Kim Arnold's LITANY FOR THE LONG MOMENT (Essay Press, 2018), an experimental memoir about her adoption from Korea, has been honored by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association, featured in NPR's Code Switch 2018 Book Guide, and named by Entropy Magazine as one of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2018. Her poems and prose have appeared in such publications as Conjunctions, Hyperallergic, Poem-a-Day, The Georgia Review, The Denver Quarterly, and The Rumpus, among others. She holds a BA and MFA from Brown University, where she currently teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program.
Author City: PROVIDENCE, RI USA