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DMZ Colony (National Book Award Winner)
Choi’s work gives us pause to think that more poets should do the work of historians. In clarity of words, we understand what happened “before” and how it affects “now.” We are even more privileged to have Choi double as a memoirist, as well. Personal, political and poetic — a perfect trio, making DMZ Colony a touching book of 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 Korean War cranes had no place to land.' Devastating and vigilant, this bricolage of survivor accounts, drawings, photographs, and handwritten texts unearth the truth between fact and the critical imagination. We are all 'victims of History,' so Choi comp...
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The 2020 National Book Award Finalists
