Cathy Park Hong, Author . Norton $23.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-393-06484-1
This deeply political Barnard Women Poets Prize–winning second book is part poetic sequence, part science fiction: in a future city called the Desert—a Vegas-like manmade tourist trap—a character called the Guide shows another, the
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Cathy Park Hong, Author Hanging Loose Press $13 (74p) ISBN 978-1-931236-11-9
In 27 rough, yet tightly focused lyrics and narratives, Cathy Park Hong is Translating Mo'um i.e., interpreting for mom, that bane of the first generation, yet also bringing her into her own work. A Korean-American from Los Angeles and Brooklyn...
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Cathy Park Hong. Norton, $24.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-393-08284-5
Hong’s third book renders a triptych of frontiers—the Old West, the new East, and the digital world—where artistic acts are often tantamount to subversion. “Ballad of Our Jim,” a sequence of cowboy ballads within ballads, follows a crew of outlaws...
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Cathy Park Hong. One World, $27 (224p) ISBN 978-1-984820-36-5
In this blistering essay collection, poet Hong (Engine Empire) interrogates America’s racial categories to explore the “under-reported” Asian-American experience. Hong, a child of Korean immigrants, was born in Los Angeles’s Koreatown, but moved...
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