Hardly WarHardly War, Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir, image, and opera to explore her paternal relationship and heritage. Here poetry and geopolitics are inseparable twin sisters, conjoined to the belly of a warring empire. Like fried potato chips I believe so, utterly so The hush

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this “landmark black feminist text” is essential reading for those engaged in discussions about feminism and race politics (Ms

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Hélène Bessette is a treasure and a bracing force to reckon with

The Book of the Green Man (1967)

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Patrick’s exacting eye for the fractured beauty in our shared chaos captured it all

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The contents contain "The Song of Hiawatha"

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bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction