Imagine Us, The Swarm by Muriel Leung is a testament to family. Using visual devices to support the archival nature of her writing, she constructs a hive for her family, the swarm. Leung proclaims that “grief is alchemized into its truest form,” and uses elements such as brackets, negative space, series of periods, footnotes, and line breaks to express the complexities of family relationships and document this history.
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