Favorite poetry book title of the year

Goes to:

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!.

Comments

Jessica Smith said…
awesome. that has just been waiting to be a book title. glad we got to it before the pulp novelists. though it may still be relevant for a history/politics book about, like, dance and revolution.
François Luong said…
I really like the cover design. Looks like something Chip Kidd might have designed.

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