Dance Dance Revolution: Poems

by Cathy Park Hong

Book Overview

Named one of the Los Angeles Times's Best Science Fiction Books in 2007, Dance Dance Revolution is a genre-bending tour de force told from the perspective of the Guide, a former dissident and tour guide of an imagined desert city.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393333116
• ISBN13: 9780393333114
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

not the game.

Yes, readers. read the synopsis before you click buy. It is a poetry book. not a video game. but it's a still rollicking fun and smart book, if you like invented vernacular and strange city landscapes

wild

Cathy Park Hong invents a bizarre and intricate world set in the future. There are two characters and one of them speaks in a hybrid pidgin of bits and pieces of English slang, Spanish, Korean, Latin, etc. The language may set you off at first. I know I had to start this book a couple times. But give it a chance because once you in it, the book is astonishing: a wonderful playground of musical invented words. And there's a narrative that's strange, sad, timely, violent and also--funny.

No lightweight read

The Dance Dance Revolution is a mythic story which takes the form of a poetic tale: here it took place in 1988 and the protagonist is a 'tour guide' of the Desert, a fictional resort city modeled after the world's finest hotels and capitals. Readers of epics like Dante's INFERNO will find this akin in structure and drama, offering up an invented language blending extinct English dialects with Latin, Spanish, Korean and other pidgins. No lightweight read, it's a pick for college-level collections specializing in modern literary poetic structure and is especially recommended for classroom assignment.