Hardly War non-fiction Mendelssohn retained a marginal

Mendelssohn retained a marginal

Nisrine Mbarki

She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso

The form brims here pleasurably with dogs

resulting in one of the major works of late 20th century American avant-garde poetry

Hardly War non-fiction Mendelssohn retained a marginalDon Mee Choi Hardly 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.