Cathy Park Hong and Chanel Miller on Making Art Out of Grief: A Conversation
By All products featured on Glamour are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.In her book , the poet Cathy Park Hong explains the pleasures of what she calls “bad English.” Her ode is a celebration of the profane, the borrowed, the “short, barbed, and broken.” It is also an acknowledgment—that English is a limited language, that it can't capture the full spectrum of emotions the people who speak it or who are forced to speak it feel. The silences in language—the spaces between what happened and the inadequate words we have to describe it—is an obsession that Hong shares with .