Penury

Breaking communication into its most discrete components, this collection of poems deeply examines forced loss, violence, and impoverishment. Exposing hidden relations in sound and sense, the language in this anthology communicates more than just ideas by testifying to the oppressive concepts and cultural practices that are dominant in today’s society. While the title of this expressive compilation means poverty, its content articulates the need for change.

Myung Mi Kim is a professor of English and a core faculty member of the poetics program at the State University of New York–Buffalo. She was awarded the Multicultural Publisher’s Exchange Award of Merit and her poems have appeared in American Poets in the 21st Century: The New American Poetics,?Big Bridge, Conjunctions, and Sulfur. She lives in Buffalo, New York.