The dissertation before you is a manuscript of poetry with an introduction. The introduction of the dissertation provides a context for understanding the governing aesthetics to the manuscript of poetry. The poems themselves exercise a technique which combines qualities of the lyric and the narrative, with a penchant for the fragmentary typography employed by late modernist poets, such as Lorine Niedecker and George Oppen. Topically, the poems attempt to reflect historical and spiritual insights from the perspective of a speaker who embodies the cultures of Korea and North America. Since poetry as discourse is indirect and interpretive, the emerging message of the manuscript concerns the result of a text written in English about topics not inherently of English.