DMZ Colony

DMZ Colony
AuthorDon Mee Choi
GenrePoetry, prose poetry
PublisherWave Books
Publication date
April 7, 2020
Pages152
Award2020 National Book Award for Poetry
ISBN9781940696959
Preceded byHardly War 
Followed byMirror Nation 

DMZ Colony is a 2020 poetry collection by Korean American poet and translator Don Mee Choi, published by Wave Books. Centered around the Korean War, the book combines poetry with other forms of media, such as photographs, drawings, and oral histories. Its title refers to the Korean Demilitarized Zone between South Korea and North Korea along the 38th parallel north.[1] Choi's third book of poetry, it won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2020.[2]

Critical reception

Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called the book a "stunning third collection" and "a feat of docupoetics, collage, and translation". It would later be included on their Best Books 2020 list.[3][4]

Several critics, like those in American Poets and The Los Angeles Review, lauded Choi's experimental usage of language to interrogate the Korean War.[5][6] Critics also examined the particular choices which Choi made in her translations of primary source material, viewing certain instances of untranslatability or mistranslation as a parallel to the inexplicability of Choi's subject matter of war, borders, and colonization.[7][8] The Chicago Review of Books, in particular, noted that the book "imagines the DMZ as an abundant poetic and intertextual landscape, and an axis in relation to which she carries out her trademark translational, transnational, and transliteral experiments."[9]

The book was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Four Quartets Prize in 2021.[10]

References

  1. ^ Choi, Don Mee (April 7, 2020). DMZ Colony. Wave Books. ISBN 978-1940696959.
  2. ^ "Don Mee Choi Wins National Book Award for Poetry". Granta. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
  3. ^ "DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
  4. ^ "Best Books 2020: Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
  5. ^ Poets, Academy of American. "DMZ Colony". Poets.org. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
  6. ^ You, Kion. "Review: DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi". losangelesreview.org. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
  7. ^ "Words in a Mirror: On Don Mee Choi's "DMZ Colony"". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2020-12-02. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
  8. ^ t (2023-07-04). "[REVIEW] "Oblong Oblong: Mirror Words in Transit in Don Mee Choi's 𝐷𝑀𝑍 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑦" by Pareys Liu Yiyi". Cha. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
  9. ^ Munson, Jed (2020-05-04). "Translation as Mode in "DMZ Colony"". Chicago Review of Books. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
  10. ^ "2021 Four Quartets Prize Winner". Poetry Society of America. Retrieved 2024-10-27.

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