Issue #149 Disperse the Nation: Don Mee Choi’s Poetry Trilogy

Disperse the Nation: Don Mee Choi’s Poetry Trilogy

Alan Gilbert

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With her brother on her back, a war-weary Korean girl tiredly trudges by a stalled M-26 tank in Haengju, Korea, June 1951. Courtesy of US National Archives.

Issue #149
November 2024










Notes
1

Don Mee Choi, Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016); DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020); Mirror Nation (Wave Books, 2024). All quotes from these sources will be cited in-line.

2

Édouard Glissant, “For Opacity,” in Poetics of Relation, trans. by Betsy Wing (University of Michigan Press, 1997).

3

Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (Columbia University Press, 1987), 4–5.

4

Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 1996), 53.