Letter to Cathy Park Hong
Dear Mrs. Hong! You most likely don't know who I am, but I am a huge fan of your writing! I am a senior in high school and I've encountered your pieces multiple different times, both as an assignment and through my free time. The first time I came across your writing was when we were assigned The Indebted from your book Minor Feelings, which has become a huge part of my philosophy as I become more involved in literature and the history of my ancestors. In AP Literature we were asked to choose a poem as our mentor poem to further develop our writers voice, and the first poem that came to mind was your poem "Zoo", which I was able to connect to as a South Asian in America with immigrant parents. The depth and somewhat obscurity at the beginning of the poem regarding the symbolism of the zoo interested me in finding a new way to deliver my ideas through symbolism. Through my own practice, I've attempted to write a couple of lines of