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Hardly War
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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...
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Hardly War
Documents of war by Choi's father fuel her second collection of poetry, a passionate and personal defiance of nationalism.
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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 The hush-hush proving
ground was utterly proven as history
Hardly=History I believe so, eerily so
hush hush Now watch this
performance Bull's-eye An uncanny
human understanding on target
Absolute=History loaded with
terrifying meaning The Air Force
doesn't say, hence Ugly=Narration
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 United States via Hong Kong. She now lives in Seattle, Washington.
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ISBN: 9798891060449
Publisher: Wave Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 April 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Wave Books
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 171.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 212g
Pages: 112
About the Author
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of Hardly War,The Morning News Is Exciting, and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received a Whiting Award, Lannan Literary Fellowship, Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship.She has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon's poetry, includingAutobiography of Death, which received the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize.
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