Engine Empire Poems

Name: Engine Empire Poems
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ISBN: 9780393346480

ISBN-10: 039334648X

ISBN-13: 9780393346480

Edition: 2013

Authors: Cathy Park Hong

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Engine Empire is a trilogy of lyric and narrative poems that evoke an array of genres and voices, from Western ballads to sonnets about industrialized China to fragmented lyric poems set in the future. Through three distinct yet interconnected sequences, Cathy Park Hong explores the collective consciousness of fictionalized boomtowns in order to explore the myth of prosperity. The first sequence, called "Ballad of Our Jim," draws inspiration from the Old West and follows a band of outlaw fortune seekers who travel to a California mining town during the 1800s. In the second sequence, "Shangdu, My Artful Boomtown!" a fictional industrialized boomtown draws its inspiration from present-day…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.82" long x 0.02" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Ballad of Our Jim


Fort Ballads


Ballad in O


Abecedarian Western


Ballad in A


Man that Scat


Bowietown Ballads


Ballad in I


The Song of Katydids


Shangdu, My Artful Boomtown!


Year of the Pig


Aubade


Market Forces Are Brighter Than the Sun


Adventures in Shangdu


The Engineer of Vertical Frontiers


A Little Tï¿½te-ï¿½-tï¿½te


Gift


Seed Seller's Sonnet


The World Cloud


Come Together


Year of the Amateur


Engines Within the Throne


A Visitation


The Infinite Reply


Ready-Made


Who's Who


A Wreath of Hummingbirds


The Golden State


The Quattrocento


Get Away from It All


Fable of the Last Untouched Town


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