Engine Empire

by Cathy Park Hong

Book Overview

Engine Empire is a trilogy of lyric and narrative poems that evoke an array of genres and voices, from Western ballads to sonnets about industrialized China to fragmented lyric poems set in the future. Through three distinct yet interconnected sequences, Cathy Park Hong explores the collective consciousness of fictionalized boomtowns in order to explore the myth of prosperity. The first sequence, called "Ballad of Our Jim," draws inspiration from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039334648X
• ISBN13: 9780393346480
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.1"