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Hardly war
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- 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, including Autobiography of Death, which received the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781940696218
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Wave Books, (19 May 2016)
- Number of Pages
- 97
- Weight
- 213 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 171 x 15 mm
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