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Autobiography of Death

Author
KIM HYESOON
Co-Author
-
Translator
Don Mee Choi
Publisher
New Directions
Published Year
2018
Country
UNITED STATES
Classification

KDC구분 > literature > Korean Literature > Korean Poetry > 21st century poetry

Original Title
죽음의 자서전
Original Language

Korean(한국어)

Romanization of Original
Jugeumui jaseojeon
ISBN
9780811227346
Page
110
Volume
-
Kim Hyesoon
  • Kim Hyesoon
  • Birth : 1955 ~ -
  • Occupation : Poet
  • First Name : Hyesoon
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김혜순
  • ISNI : 0000000078656481
  • Works : 35
No. Call No. Location Status Due Date Reservation
1 영어 811 김혜순 죽-최 LTI Korea Library Available - -
Published Year Publisher Country Vendor
2018 New Directions UNITED STATES OverDrive
Descriptions
  • English(English)

Kim Hyesoon’s poems “create a seething, imaginative under-and over-world where myth and politics, the everyday and the fabulous, bleed into each other” (Sean O’Brien, The Independent)

*Shortlist for The Griffin International Poetry Prize*

The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine poems, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems not only give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea’s violent contemporary history, but also unveil what Kim calls “the structure of death, that we remain living in.” Autobiography of Death, Kim’s most compelling work to date, at once reenacts trauma and narrates our historical death―how we have died and how we survive within this cyclical structure. In this sea of mirrors, the plural “you” speaks as a body of multitudes that has been beaten, bombed, and buried many times over by history. The volume concludes on the other side of the mirror with “Face of Rhythm,” a poem about individual pain, illness, and meditation.

 

Source : https://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Death-Kim-Hyesoon/dp/0811227340

Awards
  • 2019 The Griffin Poetry Prize
  • 2019 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize

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