Reviews

DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi

herblueglasses's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

kris_reads4's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

adelineee_graceee's review

2.0

poetry for the academy 

tjrober2's review against another edition

challenging informative tense medium-paced

5.0

One of my favorite books. 3rd time through. Choi is a wonderful voice in multi-media poetics, and think this is necessary for capturing the complexity of the histories, both personal and collective, that connect Korea and the U.S. 

sara_shocks's review against another edition

5.0

Choi uses poetry and questions of translation to interrogate the neocolonial occupation of South Korea and to provide an avenue for memory of the horrific incidents of torture and murder by the state. Profound and devastating.

babybearreads's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

adambwriter's review against another edition

5.0

I have honestly never read anything like this. I'm not equipped to remark on it.

https://roofbeamreader.com/2021/06/25/mostly-history/

benplatt's review against another edition

4.0

I am all about poem's that make your engagement with the text explicit and DMZ Colony has that in spades. The mirror poems and orphan poems in particular are remarkable pieces of journalistic bricollage that offer visions of what poetry (as an active practice of reading AND writing) can do.

apl2's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

egilmore's review against another edition

4.0

Harrowing. Some parts were too postmodern for me to fully grasp, but this cracks the hard shell of history as it has been told, and demands we follow up, research more, look closer at the false moral dichotomy between wrong and right, north and south.