Mirror Nation Hardly War

Mirror Nation Hardly WarDon Mee Choi Elegiac and haunting, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR US trilogy, along with Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) and the National Book Award winning DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020). Much like Proust's madeleine, a spinning Mercedez Benz ring outside Choi's Berlin window prompts a memory of her father on the Glienicker Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam, which in turn becomes catalyst for delving into the violent colonial and

" then what does all this dispossession feel like

The volume’s opening poem pays homage to the innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author Amos Tutuola

Matters of care-work share ground with matters of friendship

colonialism

Such is the setting for this brilliant and important debut by Sophie Collins

his early poetry emerged from the Beat generation

Questioning who is deemed worthy of public memorialization

Death Styles navigates the opposing forces of survival and grief

The form brims here pleasurably with dogs

Through interludes in Rome

species death

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