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Journal Article
A Global “We”? Poetic Exhortations in a Time of Precarious Life
2018
Overview
This essay follows the course of poetic exhortation through the contemporary work of two UK and U.S. poets whose lives are bound up in global processes: Sean Bonney and Myung Mi Kim. Exhortation is one of the modes, stances or registers of poetry that attempt to call forth a collective “we,” the “we” of lives that, in some case, lack a state at all or, in other cases, refuse to link their identities to an oppressive regime. Yet instead of making an explicit gesture toward including an existing group, these poets use a hortatory aesthetics to shape the formal totality of the poem. However different in the stances they assume, Bonney and Kim share a common endeavor to make the precarious “we” visible.
