A review by venneh
DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi

4.0

As a metatextual work containing translations of survivors of civilian massacres and re-education camps during the Korean War, the author’s own reactions to a trip to the DMZ, her childhood in South Korea, and the theory of neocolonization and how it relates to the act of translation. As such, it’s dense as hell, and I will freely admit that there are parts of this that went over my head, especially in sections five and seven. But as a chapbook that works in various mediums (poems, drawings, multimedia collages, theory work), it’s a hell of an experience and has me interested both in her other chapbooks and her translation work.

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My gut says 4 stars, but this is dense as hell and I’m gonna need to let it sit a night and then I’m gonna go back and reread it