Hardly War - Couverture souple

Mee Choi, Don

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1916751237 ISBN 13 : 9781916751231

Editeur : And Other Stories, 2025

Synopsis

Hardly War, first published in the USA in 2016 and finally published in the UK in 2025, splices the personal and political to dizzying effect in a poetry fluid with forms and genres including reportage, memoir, opera libretto, archival photos and drawings. Using artefacts from Choi's father, a professional documentary photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she explores her paternal relationship and heritage. Here poetry and geopolitics are inseparable twin sisters, conjoined to the belly of a warring empire. Hardly War and the two subsequent books in Choi’s KOR-US Trilogy (DMZ Colony and Mirror Nation) brings us a new poetic language to learn. Suggestive and subtle in its connections and allusions, there is an exhilarating freedom in its playful form, all while looking straight at the brutality of colonialism and dictatorship.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Don Mee Choi is a translator and highly innovative poet. Her work slips between forms, mixing poetry, lyric essay, memoir, and visual image. Incorporating archives, photographs and fragments of memory, Choi’s poetry explores historical events and the human impact of war. Her books include DMZ Colony, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Her translations of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry won the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: And Other Stories
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1916751237
• ISBN 13: 9781916751231
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 142
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