Synopses & Reviews
"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.
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"The mixture of imagination, language, and historical consciousness in this book is marvelous."--Adrienne Rich, Barnard Women Poets Prize citation
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Named one of the Los Angeles Times's Best Science Fiction Books in 2007, Dance Dance Revolutionis a genre-bending tour de force told from the perspective of the Guide, a former dissident and tour guide of an imagined desert city.
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Adrienne Rich chose Cathy Park Hong's "audacious" (Los Angeles Times) second book as the winner of the 2006 Barnard Women Poets Prize.
About the Author
Cathy Park Hong is the author of Translating Mo'um and Dance Dance Revolution and has won a Pushcart Prize and the Barnard Women Poets Prize. She lives in New York and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.