guiding us as we jump from Socrates to Luther to Melville to Nietzsche
"It is easy to imagine that the past was simpler and more wholesome that there was a time not so long ago when children rode bikes and ate apples
along with their mutinous cats and garden dotted with honeybees
The American Poetry Center's Annual Book Award chosen by Stephen Rodefer
author of THE LOST HISTORY OF THE CAPITOL
Translating Mo'um Author|John Capecci guiding us as we jumpPoetry. Asian American Studies. "Deft, edgy, dystopic, assiduous in their loathing of the famous fascination of the exotic, Cathy Park Hong's poems burst forth in searing flashes of ire and insight. She gives no quarter to either Korean or English. Without creative interference, without mistranslation, language to her is history's 'cracked' thorax, a resented 'dictation,' and a constant personal embarrassment. Her poems are 'islands without flags,'