Dance Dance Revolution!!!

I really enjoyed listening to Cathy Park Hong during her reading Thursday night. I was expected to enjoy her reading when Cathy first came to our class when I realized I was able to relate to her liking for cities. I found her writing to be quite entertaining and very creative. After reading her entire book "Dance Dance Revolution" I got the feeling of Bali or Las Vegas or something. My favorite poem of hers was her first poem. When she read it aloud I was able to understand it better. The way she sounded out words and paused during certain points made each and every poem enthusiastic. However, my favorite thing was the idea that the poems turned into a story about a tour guide. Once I got the understanding of the speaker the book and the images it created for me made the poems less frustrating and more fun to read.
Even though I learned a lot at the poetry reading, I learned more about her in our class discussion. Hearing about her latest work and when and where she has been inspired to write made it more interesting to hear her work Thursday night. I liked her knew western themed stories, it was a nice change from her last book. When she read some aloud it was interesting for me as a listener to correlate connections between both the new works and the old. The western idea had a "New Frontier" theme to it, which was similar to her poems in "Dance Dance Revolution" as well: the up and coming cities out west, near California. Basically I am very excited to buy her next book!