Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi Colette Bryce ' The poems return to

' The poems return to familiar places and themes from a later 'now'

or away from

and playtime expands that narrative frame and widens the gaze

There are poems in honour of Mancunia’s bureaucrats: the Master of the Lighting of Small Objects

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Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi Colette Bryce ' The poems return toAs in Han Kang's Human Acts, the Korean government's massacre of hundreds of students in Gwangju in 1980 is the subject of Mirror Nation, in which Choi upends all poetic conventions to convey the unsayable short description: Don Mee Choi delves into South Korea's violent recent history, particularly the military's massacre of hundreds of students taking part in the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, in a poetry of grief that is both personal and collective.