{"product_id":"mirror-nation-9781950268931","title":"Mirror Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eMirror Nation by Don Mee Choi is a poetry collection that explores the violent colonial and neocolonial contemporary history of South Korea, with a particular focus on the Gwangju Uprising of May 1980. It is inspired by W. G. Sebald and Walter Benjamin and Choi's DAAD Artists residency in Berlin. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 152 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 16 May 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2025 CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, following Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) and the National Book Award-winning DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020). Much 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 a 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 mingle 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, Mirror Nation 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 278g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 227 x 175 x 13 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781950268931\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Don Mee Choi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46004479885562,"sku":"9781950268931","price":13.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/1715975395840_book.jpg?v=1716037311","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/mirror-nation-9781950268931","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}