Essay Press, 2018
 
The orphan at the center of Litany for the Long Moment is without homeland and without language. In an extended lyric essay, Mary-Kim Arnold attempts to claim her own linguistic, cultural, and aesthetic lineage. Born in Korea and adopted to the U.S. as a child, she explores the interconnectedness of language and identity through the lens of migration and cultural rupture. Invoking artists, writers, and thinkers –Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Francesca Woodman, Susan Sontag, among others – Litany for the Long Moment interweaves personal documents, images, and critical texts as a means to examine longing, loss, and identity.