Hardly War by Don Mee Choi
Documents of war by Choi's father fuel her second collection of poetry, a passionate and personal defiance of nationalism.
Choi's use of hybrid forms poetry, memoir, opera libretto, images and artifacts from her father's -career as a photojournalist in the Korean and Vietnam Wars--lets her explore themes of injustice and empire, history and identity, sifting through the detritus of family, translation, propaganda and dislocationKathleen Rooney, The New York Times Sunday Book Review Playful and complex...Choi's poetry operates within a tradition of Korean-American experimental poets that includes Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Myung Mi Kim. Choi's zany take on militarism and the Korean diaspora may seem absurdist, but it is an inventive and daring waltz that upends what is commonly understood as the 'Forgotten War.' Publishers Weekly While imperial history relishes mythmaking and triumphalism at the expense of the human and psychological costs of war, Choi revels in history's untold spaces. Lizzie Tribone, BOMB This book's sort of rogue clarity hinges on the poet's relationship with her father. Essentially, we experience the destabilizing effects of US-ROK entanglement as coherent because this relationship sutures time and space. His award-winning photographs of the war suffuse the pages. Caitie Moore, The Poetry Project Newsletter
Don Mee Choi is the author of The Morning News Is Exciting (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 Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream (Action Books, 2014) was a finalist for the 2015 PEN Poetry in Translation Award. She was born in Seoul and came to the U.S. via Hong Kong. She now lives in Seattle.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781940696218 |
| ISBN 10 | 1940696216 |
| Title | Hardly War |
| Author | Don Mee Choi |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wave Books |
| Year published | 2016-05-19 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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