Dmz Colony

Winner of the National Book Award (USA), Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony explores the history of South Korea and the United States through innovative deployments of voice, story, and poetics.

About the author

Don Mee Choi is a translator and highly innovative poet. Her work slips between forms, mixing poetry, lyric essay, memoir, and visual image. Incorporating archives, photographs and fragments of memory, Choi’s poetry explores historical events and the human impact of war. Her books include DMZ Colony, which won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Her translations of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry won the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Don Mee Choi
• Publisher: And Other Stories
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2025
• EAN: 9781916751248
• ISBN: 978-1-916751-24-8
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, 21st Century, South Korea, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), 1950–1953 (Korean War period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / Korean War