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by Don Mee Choi
A bricolage of poetry, prose, real and imagined translations, photographs, memories, and hand-drawn overlapping circles, Don Mee Choi’s excavation of the lasting legacy of decades of war and occupation on the Korean peninsula is shot through with birds. I write of the land mass rather than the countries’ political designations because the line that differentiates the experiences of the people of North and South Korea is often muddy in Choi’s
DMZ Colony (Wave Books). While she is walking in Missouri, a migration of snow geese passing overhead sets off the author’s vertigo and triggers her return to Seoul. We learn the circumstances which caused her family to have to flee to have to, as her mother says, live “like birds” and we read about people who could not escape, those who “had no place to land.” Choi’s 2020 National Book Award winning
Since
Boston Review’s Arts in Society feature launched in 2019, the magazine has proudly published the voices of award-winning poets who have used verse to speak to the deep injustices of our time. Their unique visions have been recognized with numerous awards, from presses, journals, and the National Book Foundation.
In November,
DMZ Colony, and in December, recent contributor Destiny O. Birdsong’s debut,
Negotiations: Poems was longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
. We are honored to celebrate emerging and established talent alike and are always on the hunt for new and bold voices.
And don’t forget that our 2021