Chaos, Crossing Myung Mi Kim and the way that we’re

and the way that we’re constantly at the mercy of words and phrases as they’re deployed by the authorities

Kayo Chingonyi

often sampled from outside sources

In moving elegies to Yukio Mishima and Genji (the Shining Prince)

Chaos, Crossing Myung Mi Kim and the way that we’reOlivia Elias (trans. Kareem James Abu Zeid) Chaos, Crossing translated by award winning translator Kareem James Abu Zeid is a powerful chronicle of uprootedness, of times marked by inequality, injustice, and disconnection. These poems presented here in a bilingual edition seek the calm at the center of the storm, the still point amidst the chaos. 'Olivia Elias, child of the Nakba, is a world citizen, resident at one time or another of Lebanon, Canada,