Litany for the Long Moment 

Mary-Kim Arnold

• Other Authors Carla Harryman (Introduction)
• Title

  Litany for the Long Moment 

• Date 2018
• ISBN 9780996922937
• Publisher Ithica, NY: Essay Press
• Description 125 p; 8 in; b/w ill.
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  The orphan at the center of Litany for the Long Moment is without homeland and without language. In an extended lyric essay, Mary-Kim Arnold attempts to claim her own linguistic, cultural, and aesthetic lineage. Arnold explores the interconnectedness of language and identity through the lens of migration and cultural rupture. Invoking artists, writers, and thinkers such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Francesca Woodman, and Susan Sontag, Litany for the Long Moment interweaves personal documents, images, and critical texts as a means to examine longing, loss, and identity (Essay Press). 

• Tags Asian American poetry, Biography, Childhood, Immigration, Memory