DMZ Colony

Don Mee Choi

Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force or personal and political reckoning set over eight acts. 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 her sister book, Hardly War, it holds history accountable, its very presence a resistance to empire and a hope in humankind.