DMZ Colony
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- Paperback scheduled for publication on 03/04/2025
- Page count: 160 pages
- ISBN: 9781916751248
Synopsis
First UK publication for a modern classic in the making: a National Book Award-winning interdisciplinary book that gives voice to girl survivors of a Korean government massacre Winner of the 2020 National Book Award In DMZ Colony’s artful interweaving of poetry, oral history and typographic experimentation, words increasingly give way to her father’s documentary photos from the time of General Park Chung Hee’s brutal putsch and dictatorship, a regime supported by the USA. DMZ Colony expresses mourning, a resistance to empire, and a hope in humankind.
About the author
Don Mee Choi is a highly innovative poet and a translator. Her work slips between forms, mixing poetry, lyric essay, memoir, and visual image. Her book DMZ Colony won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry while her translations of Kim Hyesoon’s Phantom Pain Wings won the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
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