A powerful work of cultural memory that recovers voices from Korea's heartbreakingly violent postcolonial history.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016), The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received a Whiting Award, Lannan Literary Fellowship, Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship. She has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon's poetry, including Autobiography of Death (New Directions, 2018), which received the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize.

Sky Translation

Wings of Return
-Ahn Hak-s¿p #1
-Ahn Hak-s¿p #2
-Ahn Hak-s¿p #3
-Ahn Hak-s¿p #4
-Ahn Hak-s¿p #5

Planetary Translation

The Orphans
-Orphan Cheo Geum-jeom
-Orphan Heo Jeom-dal
-Orphan Kim Kyong-nam
-Orphan Kim Kap-sun
-Orphan Cheong Cheong-ja
-Orphan Wu Gi-myo
-Orphan Yi Jeong-seon
-Orphan Kim Seong-rye
-Orphan Nine
-Who am I?

The Apparatus

Interpellation of Return

Mirror Words
-Ruoy Ycnellecxe
-Who are you?
-Your Excellency
-Era uoy evila?
-Sky Similes for Snow Geese
-(Blue x 300!)

(Neo) (=) (Angels)

Notes

Acknowledgements