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Mia Kang/All Empires Must ;Mia Kang
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Discover Mia Kang's 'All Empires Must Fall,' a thought-provoking collection of poetry published by Airlie Press. This paperback edition offers a compelling exploration of themes that resonate deeply through non-fictional poetic expression. Perfect for readers seeking powerful and reflective literary works, this title is an essential addition to any poetry collection.
About the Book:
Winner of the Airlie Award
All Empires Must weaves in and out of Rome, taken as a figure for empire, ruin, and the seductions of both. An abstracted narrative concerns the fortunes of Rhea Silvia, the mythical mother of Romulus and Remus, whose story is either a romance or a romantic violation; in any case, she's dead. In these sometimes meditative, sometimes schematic poems, the desire for contact with a place, a past, or a person (including the self) is always complicated by boundaries and overdetermined by power. Language, then, becomes an austere pleasure. Unflinchingly, All Empires Must takes the measure of harm, without promise of repair.
About the Author:
Mia Kang (she/her) is the author of City Poems (ignitionpress, 2020) and the winner of the 2023 Airlie Prize for All Empires Must (Airlie Press, 2025). Her poems appear in Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Pleiades, wildness, and more. Named the 2017 winner of Boston Review’s Annual Poetry Contest, Mia has received fellowships from Brooklyn Poets and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, as well as residencies from Millay Arts and the University of the Arts. Mia holds a PhD in the history of art from Yale University. She lives in Philadelphia.
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