{"product_id":"freely-frayed-paperback","title":"Freely Frayed - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDon Mee Choi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFreely Frayed\u003c\/i\u003e gathers early poems, recent essays, and translation notes by National Book Award winning poet Don Mee Choi.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing Choi's radical modes of writing back to empire, the collection offers both the underpinnings of her acclaimed KOR-US trilogy (\u003ci\u003eHardly War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDMZ Colony\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMirror Nation\u003c\/i\u003e) and the intersecting points of personal experience and memory that have evolved during the time of writing the books. \u003ci\u003eFreely Frayed\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFreely Frayed\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u0026amp; Race=Nation\" (Wave Pamphlet, 2015).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Seoul, South Korea, \u003cb\u003eDon Mee Choi\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the KOR-US trilogy: \u003ci\u003eMirror Nation\u003c\/i\u003e (2024), which won the 2025 CLMP Firecracker Award; the National Book Award winning collection \u003ci\u003eDMZ Colony\u003c\/i\u003e (2020); and \u003ci\u003eHardly War\u003c\/i\u003e (2016). She is a recipient of fellowships from the MacArthur, Guggenheim, Lannan, and Whiting Foundations, as well as the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Her translations of Kim Hyesoon's poetry won the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. She was the 2024 Katie Jacobson Writer in Residence at CalArts and Bain-Swiggett Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University. She currently resides in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54090501685555,"sku":"9798891060463","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/nHY5oiRXHt9798891060463.webp?v=1789606244","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/freely-frayed-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}