She realizes that she has always “struggled to prove into existence,” which is troubling her poetry.
Outwardly, Hong’s life seems perfect, but on the inside, she feels invisible and stuck. She visits a Korean American therapist ( Eunice Cho), who refuses to treat her and won’t say why. The book’s first essay is called “United.” One day, suddenly convinced that her old facial tic has returned, Hong falls into a deep depression. And she contends that they can learn to do the latter by listening to the “ minor feelings” of the book’s title: the negative emotions associated with being a racial minority in a country that simply doesn’t acknowledge one’s existence or perspective. She argues that Asian Americans are too often spoken for and too infrequently given the chance to actually speak for themselves. In her essay collection Minor Feelings, Korean American poet Cathy Park Hong connects her personal experiences of race and ethnicity to a broader analysis of Asian American identity, art, and politics in the U.S.
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