Translating Mo'um Author|John Capecci "It is easy to imagine

"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

a book of paintings and poems about places of refuge

The American Poetry Center's Annual Book Award chosen by Stephen Rodefer

along with their mutinous cats and garden dotted with honeybees

In Insect Architecture

Translating Mo'um Author|John Capecci "It is easy to imaginePoetry. 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,'