Freely Frayed

Freely Frayed - Paperback

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Freely Frayed - Paperback

Freely Frayed - Paperback

by Don Mee Choi
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Book Overview

Freely Frayed gathers early poems, recent essays, and translation notes by National Book Award winning poet Don Mee Choi.

Featuring Choi's radical modes of writing back to empire, the collection offers both the underpinnings of her acclaimed KOR-US trilogy (Hardly War, DMZ Colony, and Mirror Nation) and the intersecting points of personal experience and memory that have evolved during the time of writing the books. Freely Frayed grapples with the politics of distance and language in exploration of anti-colonial logic and identity, illustrating memory's enactment of translation and a notion of salvage that creates a dialogue between forms. This book continues to deepen and broaden Choi's relentlessly inventive and radical anti-colonial project - both as a standalone book and as a companion to the trilogy. Choi's "disobedient vocabulary" exposes impossible connections and fusions that allow for radically imagined futures. Simultaneously restless and playful, these poems and essays move us to inspect our own sense of place and language, and in turn to ask what history is built from this record.

Freely Frayed contains two highly sought-after and no longer in print pamphlets, "Translation is a Mode=Translation is an Anti-neocolonial Mode" (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020) and "Freely Frayed, ᄏ=q, & Race=Nation" (Wave Pamphlet, 2015).
ISBN9798891060463
Author Don Mee Choi
PublisherWave Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages136
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Don Mee Choi

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016), The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), and several chapbooks and pamphlets of poems and essays. She has received a Whiting Award, Lannan Literary Fellowship, Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship. She has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon's poetry, including Autobiography of Death (New Directions, 2018), which received the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize.

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