Engine Empire is a trilogy of lyric and narrative poems that
evoke an array of genres and voices, from Western ballads to
sonnets about industrialized China to fragmented lyric poems set in
the future. Through three distinct yet interconnected sequences,
Cathy Park Hong explores the collective consciousness of
fictionalized boomtowns in order to explore the myth of prosperity.
The first sequence, called "Ballad of Our Jim," draws inspiration
from the Old West and follows a band of outlaw fortune seekers who
travel to a California mining town during the 1800s. In the second
sequence, "Shangdu, My Artful Boomtown " a fictional industrialized
boomtown draws its inspiration from present-day Shenzhen, China.
The third and last section, "The World Cloud," is set in the far
future and tracks how individual consciousness breaks up when
everything books, our private memories becomes immediately
accessible data. One of our most startlingly original poets, Hong
draws together individual voices at odds with the world, voices
that sing their wonder and terror."
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