IL JOM OH // Ikhyun (Ike) Kim 61 pp, handsewn Japanese binding, $10, 4.5" x 7.25" Handmade paper cover. Interior artwork by Clare Ecstasy Seaton.	"Il jom oh" is Korean for "1.5" -- "1.5" being an Asian-American term for people born in their native country but living in the US since they were little kids. They are considered the 1.5 generation. The poems in Kim's book bring together the pieces of his writing which focus on Korean culture and history, Korean and American collisions, intesections, crossings, and conflicts. Historically and poltically grounded, these poems provide a poetic facticity that is often always already theory, overlapping languages, sounds, facts, and incidents with clarity and grace, clear perception. His poem "Two Days" (which we have placed in newspaper format on a large foldout middle page) makes poetry of three days of news, creating a dynamic adjacency of what usually comes through as simply the "elsewheres" where violent policy, history, upheaval seem to always be happening. The title itself is a lie, aware of the lie we absorb in media inundation and the dulling of attention induced by such absorption. Through these kinds of adjacency, time, space and identity collapse several times in this book. A pointed read after the pure event of 9/11. To download this eBook, visit the E-Library. Required: free adobe acrobat reader.