Cathy Park Hong is the author of Translating Mo’um, (Hanging Loose Press, 2002); Dance Dance Revolution (W.W. Norton, 2007), winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize; and Engine Empire (W.W. Norton, 2012). She is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the NEA, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her writing on politics and her reviews have appeared in the Village Voice, the Guardian, Salon, Christian Science Monitor, and New York Times Magazine. She is an associate professor at Sarah Lawrence College and is regular faculty at the Queens MFA program in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Stamp the earth rind down,
shuck our boots & nap on
rubber cockscomb pad.
Rise up & ride in,
poles poked through with hide of kid
flap from blither wind.
Ride into a town of tires stacked,
a tarred prehistoric castle.
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latches...