{"product_id":"mirror-nation-9781950268931","title":"Mirror Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eElegiac and haunting, \u003ci\u003eMirror Nation\u003c\/i\u003e by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with \u003ci\u003eHardly War\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2016) and the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eDMZ Colony\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2020).\u003c\/b\u003eMuch like Proust's madeleine, a spinning Mercedez Benz ring outside Choi's Berlin window prompts a memory of her father on the Glienicker Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam, which in turn becomes catalyst for delving into the violent colonial and neocolonial contemporary history of South Korea, with particular attention to the horrors of the Gwangju Uprising of May 1980. Here, photographs, news footage, and cultural artifacts comingle with a poetry of grief that is both personal and collective. Inspired by W. G. Sebald and Walter Benjamin as well as Choi's DAAD Artists residency in Berlin, \u003ci\u003eMirror Nation\u003c\/i\u003e is a sorrowful reflection on the ways in which a place can hold a \"magnetic field of memory,\" proving that history doesn't merely repeat itself; history is ever present, chiming the hours in a chorus against empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of the National Book Award winning collection \u003ci\u003eDMZ Colony \u003c\/i\u003e(Wave Books, 2020), \u003ci\u003eHardly War\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2016), \u003ci\u003eThe Morning News Is Exciting \u003c\/i\u003e(Action Books, 2010), and several pamphlets of poems and essays. She is a recipient of fellowships from the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Lannan, and Whiting Foundations, as well as the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. She has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon's poetry, including \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of Death\u003c\/i\u003e (New Directions, 2018), which received the International Griffin Poetry Prize.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50618273857810,"sku":"9781950268931","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ad089738-a2f3-4b15-bcb5-7fc1e179be21.jpg?v=1732529851","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/mirror-nation-9781950268931","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}