Somehow, Cathy Park Hong invents a whole new language, combining Korean, Latin, and the dialect of the American West, and then (somehow!) makes you understand it. Funky, tragic, brilliant.
— Jack K.
Description
Adrienne Rich chose Cathy Park Hong's "audacious" (Los Angeles Times) second book as the winner of the 2006 Barnard Women Poets Prize.
Named one of the Los Angeles Times's Best Science Fiction Books in 2007, Dance Dance Revolution is a genre-bending tour de force told from the perspective of the Guide, a former dissident and tour guide of an imagined desert city.
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.
Praise For…
A polyglot explosion of unique individual and broader social concerns. — The Believer
