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A vibrant debut collection of poems exploring law, language and love, from a leading legal scholar of civil rights and abolition. Part sketchbook, part divination, to regard a wave invites us into a feminine shamanistic, mudang, journey through the underworlds of language imposition. Deranged by a devotion to be in something like a wave-dimension of language, Han's homophonic play across these poems tell a story of how exiled revolutionary desires live on in the weave of untranslatable and unlikely histories of loss and unbelonging. Her graphic chants transmit the experience of Korean freedom struggle as she deciphers the haunt of hangul across the many Englishes of anti-colonial thought. With each turn of the letter ㅁ, the shapes and sounds of the Korean alphabet mark the everyday horrors and beauty of life in the midst of wars upon war. Here, in a dreamscape created with the associative richness of hanja pictograms, fugitive desire and the desire for fugitivity disappear, one into the other, in search of new open fields. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies.

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Sora Y. Han was born in Oakland, California and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of Mu, 49 Marks of Abolition (Duke University Press, 2024); Letters of the Law: The Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law (Stanford University Press, 2015); and co-author of Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, 3rd Edition (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020). She teaches at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in Oakland with her partner, Wellington Bowler and their children, Kieran, Azure and Akira.

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