Cha is doing something far more interesting than describing here, though. The way she uses language constitutes an attempt to perform the function of mantra: that is, to do what mantra does.
Utopian Poetics
‘moon before the sun pronounces’
The ritual of the eclipse, the ritual of the text, becomes our ritual. We participate in its duration as actively engaged readers, entering into relationship with its author Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and with each other as we do so.
Dub-Ritual Poetry
The dubs in our ritual collaboration became duppies: the returned spectres of colonial racial violence in contemporary Britain; the silences of the untold; the repetitions and echoes of (one) another's words.
New Lunar Baedeker
This is an invitation.
‘Writing with’ Lila Matsumoto
A feminist engagement with poetic practice means that Lila performs ekphrasis as an act of 'writing with', rather than writing through, on, about, or around.
Earth Keepers – a poem
A collage poem written with the words and voices of the Earth Keepers, featured in the film DOWN to EARTH by Rolf Winters & Renata Heinen: Langani Marika (Australia), Sumpa (Ecuador), Motiram Baiga (India), Mukwa Ode (North America), Nowaten (North America), Don Jose Quispe (Peru), /Ui/Ukxa (Namibia), Balngayngu Marika (Australia), Haruzou Urakawa (Japan), Lekiti Ole Mokompo (Kenya), Margaret Connolly (Ireland), Klunta Bo (Namibia), Akeekwe (North America), Mokompo Ole Simel (Kenya).
under[belly]
medusa [re]config/ur/ation/s/
Up in lights…
A little bit of condensery...
Kinetic Utopias
In this offering of a Kinetic Utopia, I invite you into the world of these words.
Whispers of Windrush
An attempt to heal & transmute whatever energies it is in my power to transform through creativity.
Sally-Shakti Willow 