Translating Mo'um

Name: Translating Mo'um
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ISBN: 9781931236119

ISBN-10: 1931236119

ISBN-13: 9781931236119

Edition: 2002

Authors: Cathy Park Hong

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Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Deft, edgy, dystopic, assiduous in their loathing of the famous fascination of the exotic, Cathy Park Hong's poems burst forth in searing flashes of ire and insight. She gives no quarter to either Korean or English. Without creative interference, without mistranslation, language to her is history's 'cracked' thorax, a resented 'dictation,' and a constant personal embarrassment. Her poems are 'islands without flags,' 'the ocean a slate gray/ along the wolf-hued sand.' TRANSLATING MO'UM is striking both for its stabbingly original, vinegary images and its ruthless honesty: Hong being that rare thing, a poet as rigorous in her self-scrutiny as in her cultural…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
Publication date: 3/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 74
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



Zoo


Ontology of Chang and Eng, The Original Siamese Twins


Rite of Passage


Helix


Assiduous Rant


Translating Pagaji


Scale


Body Builder


Melanin


Assimilation of Sitting


The Shameful Show of Tono Maria


During Bath


All the Aphrodisiacs


Not Henry Miller but Mother


On Splitting


Movement


Translating Michin'yun


To Collage a Beginning


Hottentot Venus


Androgynous Pronoun


The Scavenging


CAT Scan


Wing


Ablution


The Gatherer


Translating Mo'um


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