Don Mee Choi

"A new book by Don Mee Choi that includes poems, prose, and images"--

DMZ Colony

Literary Nonfiction. TRANSLATION IS A MODE=TRANSLATION IS AN ANTI-NEOCOLONIAL MODE explores translation and language in the context of US imperialism--through the eyes of a "foreigner;" a translator; a child in Timoka, the made-up city of Ingmar Bergman's The Silence; a child from a neocolony.

Translation Is a Mode=Translation Is an Anti-Neocolonial Mode

Mirror Nation

"[The Morning News is Exciting] is a wildly surprising work describing the collapse of empire—bracing and invigorating. Its anger glows."—The selection committee of the Whiting Awards "Choi writes about violence and injustice in modalities that are neither sentimental, obvious, or pornographic." —Forrest Gander 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.

Hardly War

Kim Hyesoon

Phantom Pain Wings

Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Cameraman, run to my twin twin zone. A girl's exile excels beyond excess. Essence excels exile. Something happens to the wanted girl. Nothing happens to the unwanted girl. The morning news is exciting." A debut volume from poet, translator, artist and activist Don Mee Choi. Here translation, aberration, mobility and movement corrupt the would-be verities of the world's hegemonic codes. "Choi translates feminist politics into an experimental poetry that demilitarizes, deconstructs, and decolonizes any master narrative."--Craig Santos Perez .

The Morning News is Exciting

PETITE MANIFESTO consists of poems about grammar, translation, immigration, debt, Gulliver, and Betty, including an explanation on Betty's home. It also has art inspired by Melanie Klein.

Don Mee Choi

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