1) I have been thinking, about a lot of things. Thoughts, disembodied words, pale ghosts in chains, tied down, heavy though unlettered, each thought a death, single, unattached yet threaded, woven of many deaths, many names, many thinkers, oppositions [...]
In such a state, I revisit old touchstones. From the Foreword of Cathy Park Hong’s Dance dance revolution:
The language [in the Desert], while borrowing the inner structures of English Grammar, also borrows from existing and extinct English dialects. Here, new faces pour in and civilian accents morph so quickly that their accents betray who they talked to that day rather than their cultural roots. Fluency is also a matter of opinion. There is no tuning fork to one’s twang. (Hong, 19) (read more)
An interview with Cathy Park Hong is here: http://www.pw.org/content/interview_poet_cathy_park_hong?cmnt_all=1
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