Mirror NationDon Mee Choi delves into South Koreas violent recent history, particularly the militarys massacre of hundreds of students taking part in the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, in a poetry of grief that is both personal and collective. Mirror Nation is a sorrowful reflection on the ways in which a place can hold a magnetic field of memory. Don Mee Choi draws on friendships, literature and documentary materials to elucidate the personal griefs we suffer under the

who was with him at the time of writing A Swarthy Boy

the woman he loves

foreign assignments issued at the drop of a hat

and guides to all of the different aspects of clouds that you could want to know about

the collection offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Filipinos

Spiced with unusual and original overtones of the grotesque

Dispatches from the post-industrial landscapes of the North

the last of which is Muntasaf al-Layl / Midnight

s memory and demands in her

over the course of a year

Once a mother

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