I. “essays”
In the Name of Language: Walter Benjamin’s “On Language as Such and the Language of Man”
Dictee, or Odes to (): Introductions for Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Prepositions of a Martyr: A Renaissance Erotics of Innocence and Friendship
The Roulette of Angels: A Brief History of Angel Island
The Forgeries of Eros: Reading Transparency and Translation in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Notes on “Good Health” (kalos kakon)
II. “fiction”
III. “inter alia”
a short film I would like to re-make: In a beautiful country, mothers grow (2019)
The Roulette of Angels
No man is an island entire of itself. Though one who seeks a place in America may hear in those words the exclusion of their presence, knowing that a poet often writes when the hope inside his words cannot be realized before one more death begins its work to diminish the living who remain.