Dance Dance Revolution
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"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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I realize that reading poetry is seen as a bit of an affectation but dammit, sometimes I need me some of that purely distilled wordcraft. Not everything is a hit, I've lost a bit of the ear for the language but that's why this volume was a revelation. Cathy Park Hong creates her own language for the Desert guide, a funky patois of Korean, English and ebonics that just begs to be read aloud.
