Don Mee Choi
1) Hardly War
Author
Language
English
Description
Hardly War, Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir, image, and opera to explore her paternal relationship and heritage. Here poetry and geopolitics are inseparable twin sisters, conjoined to the belly of a warring empire.
Like fried potato chips — I believe so,
utterly so —...
2) DMZ colony
Author
Publisher
Wave Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A new book by Don Mee Choi that includes poems, prose, and images"--
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An iconic figure in the emergence of feminist poetry in South Korea and now internationally renowned, Kim Hyesoon pushes the poetic envelope into the farthest reaches of the lyric universe. In her new collection, Kim depicts the memory of war trauma and the collective grief of parting through what she calls an "I-do-bird-sequence," where "Bird-human is the 'I.'" Her remarkable essay "Bird Rider" explains: "I came to write Phantom Pain Wings after...