{"product_id":"dmz-colony-paperback","title":"DMZ Colony - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDon Mee Choi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDon Mee Choi's urgent \u003cem\u003eDMZ Colony\u003c\/em\u003e 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 hand-written texts unearth the truth between fact and the critical imagination. We are all 'victims of History, ' so Choi compels us to witness, and to resist.--\u003cstrong\u003eJudges Citation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWoven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's \u003cem\u003eDMZ Colony\u003c\/em\u003e is a \u003cem\u003etour de force \u003c\/em\u003eof personal and political reckoning set over eight acts.\u003c\/strong\u003e Evincing the power of translation as a poetic device to navigate historical and linguistic borders, it explores Edward Said's notion of the intertwined and overlapping histories in regards to South Korea and the United States through innovative deployments of voice, story, and poetics. Like its sister book, \u003cem\u003eHardly War\u003c\/em\u003e, it holds history accountable, its very presence a resistance to empire and a hope in humankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Seoul, South Korea, \u003cstrong\u003eDon Mee Choi\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eHardly War \u003c\/em\u003e(Wave Books, 2016), \u003cem\u003eThe Morning News Is Exciting \u003c\/em\u003e(Action Books, 2010), and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received a Whiting Award, Lannan Literary Fellowship, Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship. She has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon's poetry, including \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Death \u003c\/em\u003e(New Directions, 2018), which received the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 6.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Awards (2020)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769857212704,"sku":"9781940696959","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3854917f13691d64dc323437ee1bf116.webp?v=1780358415","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dmz-colony-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}