Joey S. Kim (she/her) is a scholar, creative writer, and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toledo. She researches global Anglophone literature with a focus on 18th- and 19th-century poetics and aesthetics. Her first book of poems, Body Facts, was released by Diode Editions in 2021. A literary critic as well as a poet, her forthcoming book, Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation (Edinburgh UP) highlights the racial and ethnic formation of the poetic subject in terms of Orientalist forms of cultural difference.

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Other poems on the web by Joey S. Kim:
"Plunder"

Joey S. Kim's Website.

Joey S. Kim on Twitter.

About Body Facts:

"Our bodies hold and hide our histories. Line by line, Joey Kim breaks us open to expose our yearnings, secrets, and untold treasures, saving us from our own fortress of history, propriety, and shame. Kim's Body Facts is our needed revelation."
—Min Jin Lee

"What does it mean to inhabit a body in a country where that body is perceived as a 'fearful symmetry'? In her poignant and vivid Body Facts, Joey Kim stitches the story of a body, her body, taking it back from the knives of Western sight, and in the process, stitches back the seen and unseen legacy of ancestors and family: her Harabeoji, Halmoni, Umma, and Appa. She asks: 'how do you spend one language and save / another?'—an ambiguity that suggests either language and person. How can our tongues reach back to save the lives that have disappeared, through immigration or oppression? Though she may not have inherited Korean from her parents, Kim's poems stretch to become a prayer 'in a language I do not know' that aims to save another—and maybe our own selves in the process."
—Philip Metres

"Joey Kim's collection, Body Facts, dynamically assesses the tolls that racism, war, and capitalism take on our abilities to freely dream, to revel in the differing intricacies of identity. Kim's work, from multiple angles, portrays the ways in which peace and beauty are forced to find new escapes from tyrants and the fallouts of their power. Kim admirably illustrates present and historical threats, all while rendering the ageless brilliance of family and spirit."
—Marcus Jackson