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Don Mee Choi is author of the National Book Award–winning DMZ Colony. She was a 2021 MacArthur and Guggenheim fellow, and has received a Whiting Award, Lannan Literary Fellowship, Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship. She has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry, including Autobiography of Death, which received the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize.
Poetry
The therapist says,
Picture a bird in your mind
What kind of bird is it?
Poetry
Excerpted from “The Apparatus,” from the forthcoming DMZ Colony.
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