Product 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...read more

Poetry. "One is shaken by this severe and quiet telling... Myung Mi Kim's languange is pure and commanding and brings us to a place of grieving we have needed to acknowledge"--Kathleen Fraser. In UNDER FLAG, winner of the 1991 Multicultural Publishers Book Award, Myung Mi Kim writes in a stark, unflinching voice that alternately drives to the core of painful subject matter and backs off to let beauty speak for itself: "Save the water from rinsing rice for sleek hair / This is what the young women are told, then they're told / Cut off this hair that cedar combs combed / Empty straw sacks and hide under them / Enemy soldiers are approaching..." ("Body As One As History"). The cumulative effect is, according to Ammiel Alcalay, "a poetics which resists being neutralized or categorized.""'Beset by borders conquered, disfigured...' One is shaken by this severe and quiet telling. Not since Oppen, has the eroding presence of war on the wholeness of human existence been so vividly located. But the construction of perspective has shifted from male to female, occupier to occupied. Myung Mi Kim's languange is pure and commanding and brings us to a place of grieving we have needed to acknowledge." Kathleen Fraser"

Offers poems of family, history, love, and vision. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Since the early 1970s, the Korean American poet and scholar Walter K. Lew has produced innovative works ranging from linked-verse elegies for jazz musicians and multimedia “movietelling” performances to pioneering poetry anthologies and TV documentaries...read more

Product Description: This volume collects much of Walter K. Lew's poetry and arranges it into five thematic sections: his family's experience of Korea's turbulent history; the aesthetics of music and painting; death; eroticism; and mal, which means language in Korean.

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