Dance Dance Revolution

By Cathy Park Hong,

Book cover of Dance Dance Revolution: Poems

Book description

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.

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1 author picked Dance Dance Revolution as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I was genuinely surprised and challenged by this inventive book by Cathy Park Hong that follows a mysterious translator into a dystopic new world.

Written in a pygin that combines over ten different languages, this poetry collection is deeply weird but oddly moving, despite its formal inventiveness, and connects politics to poetry in a novel and haunting way. 

From Simon's list on overthink and cry at the club with.

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