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Elegiac and haunting, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) and the National Book Award-winning DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020).

Much like Proust's madeleine, a spinning Mercedez Benz ring outside Choi's Berlin window prompts a memory of her father on…


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One of our most powerful contemporary poets, whose work blends the personal with the international, performance with text, Don Mee Choi explores with ferocity and imagination the politics of language, war, history, and intimacy.

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Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…

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