10 Top adult books like DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi

Cover of DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi

DMZ Colony

By: Don Mee Choi

4.31

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of…

"It can take billions of years for light to reach us through the galaxies, which is to say, History is ever arriving. So it's most likely that the decision, seemingly all mine, was already made years ago by someone else, which is to say, language — that is to say, translation — always arises from collective consciousness."

-Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony

If you liked the adult plot in DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Jericho Brown, None, Chen Chen

1. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • asian literature
  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Cover of Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil

2. Ban en Banlieue

By: Bhanu Kapil

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the fir… read more

Similar categories in Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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3. What the Living Do: Poems

By: Marie Howe

3.00

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Informed by the death of a beloved brother, here are the stories of childhood, its thicket of sex a… read more

Similar categories in Marie Howe's What the Living Do: Poems book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
  • adult
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4. Whereas

By: Layli Long Soldier

4.12

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth si… read more

Similar categories in Layli Long Soldier's Whereas book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • school

5. Dictee

By: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dictee is the best-known work of the versatile and important Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyu… read more

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6. Deaf Republic

By: Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more

Similar categories in Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
  • politics
  • adult
"A man should smell better than his country"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."

-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

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7. frank: sonnets

By: Diane Seuss

4.50

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD … read more

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's frank: sonnets book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I saw a little movie of a person stroking a small bird with two Q-tips, one held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand. It tipped back its head to receive the minor tenderness, which to the b…"

-Diane Seuss, frank: sonnets

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8. Pilgrim Bell: Poems

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Kaveh Akbar’s exquisite, highly anticipated follow-up to Calling a Wolf a Wolf. With formal virtuos… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Pilgrim Bell: Poems book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"Wrath is the desire to repay what you've suffered."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

"Whatever I learn makes me angry to have learned it."

-Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Cover of The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi

9. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

Similar categories in Franny Choi's The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • asian literature
  • poetry
  • adult
"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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10. All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

By: Paul Tran

3.87

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of … read more

Similar categories in Paul Tran's All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets) book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"There is no truth. Only a version. Aversion. A verge. A vengeance."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life...."

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

"...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed in…"

-Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin Poets)

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11. From From: Poems

By: Monica Youn

4.18

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more

Similar categories in Monica Youn's From From: Poems book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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12. Modern Poetry: Poems

By: Diane Seuss

4.53

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more

Similar categories in Diane Seuss's Modern Poetry: Poems book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
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13. Sight Lines

By: Arthur Sze

3.85

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In his National Book Award-winning tenth collection Sight Lines, Arthur Sze lends the reader his pr… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Sze's Sight Lines book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • asian literature
  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"the world of being is like this gravel: you think you own a car, a house, this blue-zigzagged shirt, but you just borrow these things. Yesterday, you constructed an aqueduct of dreams and stood at Gi…"

-Arthur Sze, Sight Lines

Cover of Customs: Poems by Solmaz Sharif

14. Customs: Poems

By: Solmaz Sharif

4.21

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more

Similar categories in Solmaz Sharif's Customs: Poems book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
  • politics
  • adult
  • nonfiction
Cover of Best Barbarian: Poems by Roger Reeves

15. Best Barbarian: Poems

By: Roger Reeves

4.10

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf’s Grendel t… read more

Similar categories in Roger Reeves's Best Barbarian: Poems book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
Cover of Punks: New & Selected Poems by John  Keene

16. Punks: New & Selected Poems

By: John Keene

4.26

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John … read more

Similar categories in John Keene's Punks: New & Selected Poems book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • school
Cover of American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

17. American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

By: Terrance Hayes

4.27

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assas… read more

Similar categories in Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"May all the gold you touch burn, rot, and rust."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

" Sometimes Is a good answer to any existential question."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Are you not the color of this country's current threat Advisory?"

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

"Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me."

-Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

Cover of DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi

18. DMZ Colony

By: Don Mee Choi

4.31

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony is a tour de force of… read more

Similar categories in Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
  • history
  • memoir
  • school
  • asia
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • asian literature
  • adult
"It can take billions of years for light to reach us through the galaxies, which is to say, History is ever arriving. So it's most likely that the decision, seemingly all mine, was already made years …"

-Don Mee Choi, DMZ Colony

Cover of Theophanies by Sarah Ghazal Ali

19. Theophanies

By: Sarah Ghazal Ali

4.46

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Theophanies, selected as the Editors Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award, is a testament to women… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ghazal Ali's Theophanies book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
Cover of Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony  Cody

20. Borderland Apocrypha

By: Anthony Cody

4.42

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the Mexican—American War, but it sparked a se… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Cody's Borderland Apocrypha book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
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21. Phantom Pain Wings

By: Kim Hyesoon

4.02

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Winged ventriloquy―a powerful new poetry collection channeling the language of birds by South Korea… read more

Similar categories in Kim Hyesoon's Phantom Pain Wings book and Don Mee Choi's DMZ Colony

  • poetry

14 Top nonfiction books like DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi

Transform Your Habits

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Ban en Banlieue

Bhanu Kapil

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Whereas

Layli Long Soldier

4.12

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

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10 Top contemporary books like Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Iris

Louise Glück

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

4.40

Transform Your Habits

frank: sonnets

Diane Seuss

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

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