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Hardly War
Year
2025
Language
ENGLISH
Duration
1h 22m 32s
Publication Information
Wave Books
Summary
Hardly War, Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir, image, and opera to explore her paternal relationship and heritage. Here poetry and geopolitics are inseparable twin sisters, conjoined to the belly of a warring empire. Like fried potato chips — I believe so, utterly so — The hush-hush proving ground was utterly proven as history — Hardly=History — I believe so, eerily so — hush hush — Now watch this performance — Bull's-eye — An uncanny human understanding on target — Absolute=History — loaded with terrifying meaning — The Air Force doesn't say, hence Ugly=Narration