- Poetry, American poetry, Asian american authors, Women authors
"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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- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Cathy Park Hong
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 120
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton, W. W. Norton & Company
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780393064841
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