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Words in a Mirror: On Don Mee Choi’s “DMZ Colony”

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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/words-in-a-mirror-on-don-mee-chois-dmz-colony
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lareviewofbooks
Issued Date
December 02, 2020
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Writer
Don Mee Choi

About the Author

  • Don Mee Choi
  • Birth : 1962 ~ -
  • Occupation : Translator, Poet
  • First Name : -
  • Family Name : -
  • Korean Name : Don Mee Choi
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  • Works : 0
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A 1.5-GENERATION Korean American living in St. Louis, such as myself, will most likely never realize the fact that they’re living near the 38th parallel north until they come across DMZ Colony, the latest collection of poems by the poet-translator Don Mee Choi, whose opening section takes place in St. Louis. Snow geese say to Choi, “SEE YOU AT DMZ,” flying over Forest Park in formation for three pages, figures in the distant canvas of the sky. Choi has replaced the geese with letters, as though the letters were stick figures representing the geese: Ds on the first page, Ms on the second page, Zs on the third page.

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