Plural Monism: Suji Kwock Kim's "Drunk Metaphysics after Ko Un"

Today's poem, "Drunk Metaphysics after Ko Un," by Suji Kwock Kim, can be brought right to your computer screen if you click here.

Watch her read "Drunk Metaphysics" (jump to 17:10), and other poems, below.



I stumbled across Kim's poetry by accident while researching Richard Beban for this very post. Her poetry is acute. "Drunk" is minimal, but meaningful: Are we one? or trillions? And which—of those many—makes us, us?

This talk of division continues, and goes further, in another poem of Kim's, "Monologue for an Onion." It is beautiful, and penetrating, and true. What is at our center?

If you like what Kim does in these poems, you might like these: Julia de Burgos, "To Julia de Burgos" Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Liver."