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Mirror Nation

By (author) Don Mee Choi

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â€˜Mirror Nation offers the best of what poetry can provideâ€”a new way of seeing.â€™ Firecracker Awards, Don Mee Choi delves into South Koreaâ€™s violent recent history, particularly the militaryâ€™s 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 â€˜magnetic field of memoryâ€™. â€˜Don Mee Choi draws on friendships, literature and documentary materials to elucidate the personal griefs we suffer under the assaults of empire. Formally explosive and emotionally harrowing, Mirror Nation is a riveting investigation into the coded images that fuse memories of different times and places.â€™ Forrest Gander, Poetry Society Book of the Year 2024 â€˜From Ethiopia to Israel, Nicaragua to Afghanistan, she ties headlines and fragments using the equal sign, which she refers to as â€œa syntax that enables multiple places and times to coexist simultaneously.â€ Choi skilfully illustrates the cyclical, endless nature of violence to more deeply understand her home, herself, and the world.â€™ Publishers Weekly