“In Invisible Cartographies, we uncover and locate emotional and regional geographies sought out from a “dexterous heart.” Kim intimately and bravely strings the chemical language of diasporic grief, full of so much living “like a tarp stretched wide” with tender luminosity, “iridescent from wounds.” Through poems in symphony with dark and tenebrous ecologies, Kim forages through “foothills” of “the missing,” holding up to the light remnants from war, histories of fugitivity and (un)belongings after such inherited survival.”

~ Angela Peñaredondo, contest judge and author of nature felt but never apprehended