Don Mee Choi: KAUMKRIEG

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First published in the US in 2016 and in the UK in 2025, Hardly War splices the personal and political to dizzying effect in a poetry fluid with forms and genres that include reportage, memoir, libretto, archival photos, and drawings. Using artifacts from Choi’s father, a professional documentary photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she explores her paternal relationship and heritage. Here, poetry and geopolitics are inseparable twin sisters, conjoined to the belly of a warring empire. Choi’s KOR-US trilogy (Hardly War and the subsequent DMZ Colony and Mirror Nation) brings us a new poetic language to learn. Suggestive and subtle in its connections and allusions, there is an exhilarating freedom in its playful form, all while looking straight at the brutality of colonialism and dictatorship. Don Mee Choi is a poet and translator. Her DMZ Kolonie was a finalist for the 2023 Internationaler Literaturpreis. Lotta Thießen is a poet and translator from Portuguese and English, whose focus is on political journalism and activist poetry. Uljana Wolf is a poet and translator. She recently published muttertask (kookbooks, 2023) and translated Don Mee Choi’s DMZ Kolonie (Spector Books, 2023) and, with Sool Park, Kim Hyesoon’s Autobiographie des Todes (S. Fischer Verlag, 2025), which won the HKW International Prize for Literature 2025.

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