Hardly War

Title: Hardly War

Author: Don Mee Choi

Publisher: Wave Books

Publication Year: 2016

ISBN:  9781940696218

Hardly War, Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir, image, and opera to explore her paternal relationship and heritage. Here poetry and geopolitics are inseparable twin sisters, conjoined to the belly of a warring empire.