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Engine Empire: Poems (2012)

by Cathy Park Hong(Favorite Author)

4.16 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0393082849 (ISBN13: 9780393082845)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: Hong is really inventive in her use of language and the stories she tells through these three sets of poems flow effortlessly. There's a surreal, dream-like sense to her imagery, but at the same time she manages to ground her poems in some form or another of figures, ideas and events based off of history that give her poems a realistic fullness. She also evokes colours very easily in her work, without coming off too flowery. Looking forward to reading more of Hong's work in the future.
review 2: I don't read poetry often, and this slim book of interconnected poems in three parts was too abstruse for me to really get a handle on. I didn't hate it. (It would be hard for me to hate a book set in the 19th century American West, an alternate present Chinese industri... moreal city, and the far future. And Hong's use of language was frequently breathtaking, when I wasn't finding it inscrutable.) I think I'll have to let the book percolate for a while and then reread it, if I want to respond to it with more than a simple absence of loathing, though. less

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