Don Mee Choi: Knappt Krig

DON MEE CHOI: KNAPPT KRIG (20-TAL, 2023)

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TRANSLATED BY ANDJEAS EJIKSSON & JENNIFER HAYASHIDA

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"Hardly War" is Don Mee Choi's second collection of poems and the first part of a trilogy. Defying history, national identity, and militarism, and 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.

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