{"title":"Don Mee Choi","description":"\u003cp\u003eDon Mee Choi’s work offers a powerful exploration of memory, identity, and displacement, weaving together personal and historical narratives with lyrical precision. Her writing uniquely blends poetry and prose, creating vivid landscapes that confront war, diaspora, and resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find in her books a compelling voice that bridges the intimate and the political, enriched by a deep engagement with arts, culture, and memoir. Her words invite reflection on the complexities of history and the enduring quest for belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hardly-war-by-don-mee-choi-9798891060449","title":"Hardly War","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHardly War\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLike fried potato chips I believe so,\u003cbr\u003e utterly so The hush-hush proving\u003cbr\u003e ground was utterly proven as history \u003cbr\u003eHardly=History I believe so, eerily so\u003cbr\u003e hush hush Now watch this\u003cbr\u003e performance Bull's-eye An uncanny\u003cbr\u003e human understanding on target \u003cbr\u003eAbsolute=History loaded with\u003cbr\u003e terrifying meaning The Air Force\u003cbr\u003e doesn't say, hence Ugly=Narration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon Mee Choi\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Morning News Is Exciting\u003c\/i\u003e (Action Books, 2010), and translator of contemporary Korean women poets. She has received a Whiting Writers Award and the 2012 Lucien Stryk Translation Prize. Her translation of Kim Hyesoon's \u003ci\u003eSorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream\u003c\/i\u003e (Action Books, 2014) was a finalist for the 2015 PEN Poetry in Translation Award. She was born in Seoul and came to the United States via Hong Kong. She now lives in Seattle, Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46998215917804,"sku":"9798891060449","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4672433488914.jpg?v=1763211479"},{"product_id":"mirror-nation-by-don-mee-choi-9781950268931","title":"Mirror Nation","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElegiac and haunting, \u003ci\u003eMirror Nation\u003c\/i\u003e by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with \u003ci\u003eHardly War\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2016) and the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eDMZ Colony\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMuch like Proust's madeleine, a spinning Mercedes Benz ring outside Choi's Berlin window prompts a memory of her father on the Glienicker Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam, which in turn becomes a catalyst for delving into the violent colonial and neocolonial contemporary history of South Korea, with particular attention to the horrors of the Gwangju Uprising of May 1980. Here, photographs, news footage, and cultural artifacts co-mingle with a poetry of grief that is both personal and collective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by W. G. 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Evincing the power of translation as a poetic device to navigate historical and linguistic borders, it explores Edward Said's notion of \"the intertwined and overlapping histories\" in regards to South Korea and the United States through innovative deployments of voice, story, and poetics. Like its sister book, \u003cem\u003eHardly War\u003c\/em\u003e, it holds history accountable, its very presence a resistance to empire and a hope in humankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596277858540,"sku":"9781940696959","price":59.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9673a83c7899dde864d3e50cc27a996d.jpg?v=1777930674"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/don-mee-choi.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}