#hardly war

[pecunningham]

I reviewed Don Mee Choi’s Hardly War for FANZINE

[besmirchthis]

Beauty=Nation is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful nation I’ve ever known in my life. From this, it might appear that the hydrangea is a fairly simple plant, but there are more complications. And they can happen because they do—so sway me—sway me—oh sway me—yes, ma’am—spring snow is prettier than winter snow—so allow me to introduce our American visitors, and I must ask you to forgive their somewhat lackadaisical manners, but I have conditioned them, or brainwashed them, which I understand is the new American word, to believe that they are waiting out a storm in the lobby of a small hotel in New Jersey where a meeting of the ladies garden club is in progress. Yes, ma’am, Beauty=Nation is not an American word.

Don Mee Choi, Hardly War

[universitybookstore]

The new book from Wave Books and Korean American poet and translator Don Mee Choi, Hardly War, has been winning rave reviews, including a recent one in the New York Times.  We’re proud to claim the poet as one of our own as she was, at one time, a bookseller here at University Book Store, Seattle.

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