Pavlina Radia
Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poets (review)
College Literature - Volume 37, Number 2, Spring 2010, pp. 213-216
West Chester University
Josephine Nock-Hee Park's Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poets is an eloquent and valuable addition to the emergent field of transpacific studies. In her book, Park probes into controversial, yet productive alliances between Asia and America, focusing specifically on the American and Asian American poetry's "trafficking" in western and eastern images of Asia from the modernist Orientalism of Ezra Pound and Gary Snyder's Zen ethics, to the experimental aesthetics of Bandit poets Garrett Kaoru Hongo, Alan Chong Lau, and Lawson Fusao Inada. Park concludes her book with an astute examination of the poetic innovations by contemporary female Asian American writers Hak Kuyng Cha and Myung Mi Kim.
Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poets (review)
College Literature - Volume 37, Number 2, Spring 2010, pp. 213-216
West Chester University
Josephine Nock-Hee Park's Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poets is an eloquent and valuable addition to the emergent field of transpacific studies. In her book, Park probes into controversial, yet productive alliances between Asia and America, focusing specifically on the American and Asian American poetry's "trafficking" in western and eastern images of Asia from the modernist Orientalism of Ezra Pound and Gary Snyder's Zen ethics, to the experimental aesthetics of Bandit poets Garrett Kaoru Hongo, Alan Chong Lau, and Lawson Fusao Inada. Park concludes her book with an astute examination of the poetic innovations by contemporary female Asian American writers Hak Kuyng Cha and Myung Mi Kim.
