Under FlagMyung Mi Kim In Under Flag, Myung Mi Kim writes in a stark, unflinching voice that alternately drives to the core of painful subject matter and backs off to let beauty speak for itself: "Save the water from rinsing rice for sleek hair This is what the young women are told, then they're told Cut off this hair that cedar combs combed Empty straw sacks and hide under them Enemy soldiers are approaching" The cumulative effect is, according to Ammiel