DMZ Colony
WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY "Don Mee Choi's urgent¿DMZ Colony¿captures the migratory latticework of those transformed by war and colonization. Homelands present and past share one sky where birds fly, but 'during the Kor...
Hardly War
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...
Knappt krig
I Knappt krig utövar Don Mee Choi en olydnadspoetik som öppnar upp snitt ur det förflutna med hjälp av språk och fotografi. Det är ett experimentellt och bångstyrigt översättningsarbete med utgångspunkt i det egna minnet, präglat av faderns bilder...
Mirror Nation
Shortlisted for the 2025 PEN Heaney Prize ‘Mirror Nation offers the best of what poetry can provide—a new way of seeing.’ Firecracker Awards, Don Mee Choi delves into South Korea’s violent recent history, particularly the military’s massacre of hundreds of students taking part in the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, in a poetry of grief that is both personal and collective. Mirror Nation is a sorrowful reflection on the ways in which a place can hold a ‘magnetic field of memory’. ‘Don Mee Choi draws on friendships, literature and documentary materials to elucidate the personal griefs we suffer under the assaults of empire. Formally explosive and emotionally harrowing, Mirror Nation is a riveting investigation into the coded images that fuse memories of different times and places.’ Forrest Gander, Poetry Society Book of the Year 2024 ‘From Ethiopia to Israel, Nicaragua to Afghanistan, she ties headlines and fragments using the equal sign, which she refers to as “a syntax that enables multiple
Yi Sang: Selected Works
Winner of the Big Other Award in Translation Winner of MLA's 17th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work Formally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang's works were uniquely situated amid the literary experimen...
