Favorite poetry book title of the year
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Dance Dance Revolution, by Cathy Hong Park (W.W. Norton, May 2007)
"The mixture of imagination, language, and historical consciousness in this book is marvelous."—Adrienne Rich, Barnard Women Poets Prize citation
"The Guide" is a former South Korean dissident and tour guide who speaks a fluid fabricated language; "the Historian" interviews the Guide and annotates the commentaries. Cathy Park Hong's passionate and artful poem sequence weaves an ultimately revitalizing dialogue on shared experience in a globalized world, using language as subversion and disguise.
And I believe she also has some poems from this book in a past issue of Action, Yes!.
Dance Dance Revolution, by Cathy Hong Park (W.W. Norton, May 2007)
"The mixture of imagination, language, and historical consciousness in this book is marvelous."—Adrienne Rich, Barnard Women Poets Prize citation
"The Guide" is a former South Korean dissident and tour guide who speaks a fluid fabricated language; "the Historian" interviews the Guide and annotates the commentaries. Cathy Park Hong's passionate and artful poem sequence weaves an ultimately revitalizing dialogue on shared experience in a globalized world, using language as subversion and disguise.
And I believe she also has some poems from this book in a past issue of Action, Yes!.
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