"- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
a book of paintings and poems about places of refuge
from fishing in streams and days so hot the "blank road shimmers" as the heat drives you out of your "straw-frail" mind
illuminates these soulful
"It is easy to imagine that the past was simpler and more wholesome that there was a time not so long ago when children rode bikes and ate apples
Translating Mo'um Author|John Capecci "- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)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,'