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[nicholasandriani]

The Revolutionary Act of Minor Feelings. Cathy Park Hong Challenges You to Confront Your Complicity in Oppression and Reclaim Your Humanity

This book broke me in ways I hadn’t expected. Poets have a tendency to do this. I can’t help but enter their world on tiptoes as I dance around their words p, only to eventually collide with a fragile moment that shakes me awake from my complicity in upholding the systems that be. Minor Feelings is no exception and remains one of the most challenging books I’ve encountered to this day. Minor…

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[intellectures]

Auf der anderen Seite des Universums

Beim Internationalen Literaturfestival in Berlin stand der Montagabend ganz im Zeichen des Booker Prize. Mit Maaza Mengiste und C Pam Zhang – erste in Addis Abeba geboren, zweite in Peking – waren zwei US-Autorinnen zu Gast, die im Rennen um den wichtigsten Literaturpreis der englischsprachigen Welt waren. Mit ihren Romanen rückten sie verdrängte Geschichte und Minderheitenperspektiven in den Vordergrund. Read the full article

[neaato]

Repost from @npreads - I am obsessed with this book. This book is Mariah Carey singing “Why you so obsessed with me?” and I am whoever that song is written about (rumor is it’s about Eminem). Minor Feelings is a thought-provoking, insightful, smart collection of essays that delve into Asian American history, identity and psychology. But rather than rehashing and reexamining the same stereotypes and issues or throwing up a trendy #RepresentationMatters, Cathy Park Hong gives us an honest examination and refreshing perspective of Asian American issues. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ And she does this without being didactic—her essays are personal and she gets her point across through storytelling instead of just argument. This collection had so many pearl-clutching-light-bulb moments for me. She puts into words so many things I feel as an Asian American person but never knew how to articulate. She also introduced me to new ideas to ponder, and histories, people and legacies to remember. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ AND this was the first book I’ve ever vandalized with brightly-colored tabs. So much in this book felt important to me—I had to remember it all! Adding this to my favorites for sure. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Thank you @OneWorldBooks for this ARC! Minor Feelings comes out February 25!⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ #minorfeelings #asianamericanreaders #asianamerican #cathyparkhong #bookwormlife #newbookstagram #truthbomb #essays #minimalism #bookrecommendations #advancedreaderscopy #readingisfundamental ⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/B87Bw-_hN6E/?igshid=1xhm97rwqm6ac

[killdeers]

Work morn to moon. Know how to comb bottom pools, spot dots of gold spoon pots of gold. Vow to do good.

[alabasterbust-blog]

Morning Sun

Raised on a cozy diet of conditional love, I learned to emoji from teevee. Now I’m hounded by gripes before my time. Twisted in my genome is this thorn, and all I see are feuds, even swans got boxing gloves for heads.

— Ah Ketty-San, why so mori? Maybe you need upgrade of person?

History shat on every household. Cop cruisers wand their infrared along bludgeoned homes, demanding boys to spread your cheeks, lift your sac — Now, here’s an alcopop to dull that throb, hide your ugly feelings.

I want to love, yes, yet afraid to love since I will be slapped, yet what’s this itch? A fire ant burning to a warring, boiling froth of lust: Slap me, harder, slap me again!

— Ketty-San, so Sado Masakumi, so much Sodami Hari Kuri.

I sorry.

***Cathy Park Hong, “Morning Sun,” Poetry, March 2015.