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Don Mee Choi
Don Mee Choi is a poet and translator. Her book Autobiography of Death explores history and memory through a personal lens. Readers often connect with her direct and insightful style.
Hardly war
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.