Documents of war by Choi's father fuel her second collection of poetry, a passionate and personal defiance of nationalism.

Hardly War

Race=Nation
Photo: Taedong River Bridge & Flight of
     Refugees /A Little Glossary
Woe Are You?
6.25
Photo: With her brother on her back/
I refuse to translate
1950 June 28: The Fall of Seoul
Photo: With my brother on my back/
I Was Narrowly Narrator
The Hydrangean Candidate
Photo: August 15, 1948/ A Little Menu
Hydrangea Agenda
Suicide Parade
Photo: There is no sky only visual aid
A Little Confession
Double Hence
Ugly=Nation
Please!

Purely Illustrative

New Tarzon Guided Bomb/Bomb with a Brain
The Tarzon¿s Guide to History/Victory=Narration
Photo: Refugee Girl Daisy Girl
I, Lack-a-daisy
Daisy Serenade
Kitty Hawk Postcard
Daddy¿s Flower Bed: A Little Chorus
Shitty Kitty
Neocolony¿s Colony
Operation Punctum

Hardly Opera

Photos: My Father in Saigon, May 1968/
A Little Paper Closet
Act 1. I was surprised!
Act 2. What¿s going on? OK OK
Act 3. Everybody was there
Act 4. U.S. Ambassador¿s garden party
First Stage Scene
Second Stage Scene
Act 5. Madam Kim!
Act 6. Pyongyang Excursion 1950
Act 8. Flower of All Flowers

Notes
Acknowledgements

Don Mee Choi is the author of The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), and translator of contemporary Korean women poets. She has received a Whiting Writers Award and the 2012 Lucien Stryk Translation Prize. Her translation of Kim Hyesoon’s Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream (Action Books, 2014) was a finalist for the 2015 PEN Poetry in Translation Award. She was born in Seoul and came to the U.S. via Hong Kong. She now lives in Seattle.