DMZ Colony

DMZ Colony is a 2020 poetry collection by Korean American poet and translator Don Mee Choi, published by Wave Books.

Centered around the Korean War, the book combines poetry with other forms of media, such as photographs, drawings, and oral histories.

[2] Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called the book a "stunning third collection" and "a feat of docupoetics, collage, and translation".

[3][4] Several critics, like those in American Poets and The Los Angeles Review, lauded Choi's experimental usage of language to interrogate the Korean War.

[5][6] Critics also examined the particular choices which Choi made in her translations of primary source material, viewing certain instances of untranslatability or mistranslation as a parallel to the inexplicability of Choi's subject matter of war, borders, and colonization.