Hardly War (Paperback)

Paperback. 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.Like fried potato chips I believe so,utterly so The hush-hush provingground was utterly proven as history Hardly=History I believe so, eerily so hush hush Now watch thisperformance Bull's-eye An uncanny human understanding on target Absolute=History loaded withterrifying meaning The Air Forcedoesn't say, hence Ugly=Narration Don Mee Choi is the author of The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), and translator of contemporary Korean women poets. She has received a Whiting Writers Award and the 2012 Lucien Stryk Translation Prize. Her translation of Kim Hyesoon's Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream (Action Books, 2014) was a finalist for the 2015 PEN Poetry in Translation Award. She was born in Seoul and came to the United States via Hong Kong. She now lives in Seattle, Washington. Documents of war by Choi's father fuel her second collection of poetry, a passionate and personal defiance of nationalism. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…