âIn The Fish & The Dove, Mary-Kim Arnoldâs lyrical scope sweeps across intersecting terrains, moving through time to capture the history of occupation and legacy war in Korea, through the delicate tethers between biological mother, adoptive mother, motherland and daughter, and through the permeable membranes which exist between person and place. . . . With this fiercely tender offering, she lays bare multiple wars: ones between countries, in memory, within a family, as well as the ones between women and men. . . . Ê»[T]ime is a robe stitched through with ashâ that Arnold keeps Ê»trying to shake off.â And it is an astonishing sight to behold.â âDiana Khoi Nguyen
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