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Hardly war
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- Book Synopsis
- Hardly War, Don Mee Choi's UK debut, defies categorisation. Using artefacts 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. Suggestive and subtle in its connections and allusions, there is an exhilarating freedom in its playful form, all while looking straight at the brutality of colonialism and dictatorship.'A dark and upsetting but also funny-angry scrapbook . . . Choi has inherited her father's journalistic sense for the right detail. She knows when to get out of the way and let the material speak for itself.' Kathleen Rooney, The New York Times
- About The Author
- Don Mee Choi is a translator and highly innovative poet. Her work slips between forms, mixing poetry, lyric essay, memoir, and visual image. Incorporating archives, photographs and fragments of memory, Choi's poetry explores historical events and the human impact of war. Her books include DMZ Colony, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Her translations of Kim Hyesoon's poetry won the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781916751231
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- And Other Stories, (06 March 2025)
- Weight
- 169 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 172 mm
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