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Autobiography of Death

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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
-

About the Author

Kim Hyesoon
  • Kim Hyesoon
  • Birth : 1955 ~ -
  • Occupation : Poet
  • First Name : Hyesoon
  • Family Name : Kim
  • Korean Name : 김혜순
  • ISNI : 0000000078656481
  • Works : 35
About the Original Work
죽음의 자서전
  • 죽음의 자서전
  • Author : Kim Hyesoon
  • Published Year : 2016
  • English Title : Autobiography of Death
More About the Original Work
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

Work List
Author Work name
Translation Korean Translation Korean
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Commute : day one 출근 : 하루
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Calendar : day two 달력 : 이틀
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Photograph : day three 사진 : 사흘
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Lean on the Water : day four 물에 기대요 : 나흘
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Midnight Sun : day five 백야 : 닷새
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 After You’re Gone : day six 간 다음에 : 엿새
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Tibet : day seven 티베트 : 이레
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Orphan : day eight 고아 : 여드레
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Everyday Everyday Everyday : day nine 매일 매일 내일 : 아흐레
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Namesake : day ten 동명이인 : 열흘
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Butterfly : day eleven 나비 : 열하루
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Lunar Eclipse : day twelve 월식 : 열이틀
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Gravel Skirt : day thirteen 돌치마 : 열사흘
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Nest : day fourteen 둥우리 : 열나흘
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Death’s Magic-Compressed Distance : day fifteen 죽음의 축지법 : 열닷새
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Naked Body : day sixteen 나체 : 열엿새
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 A Grave : day seventeen 묘혈 : 열이레
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Black Fishnet Gloves : day eighteen 검은 망사 장갑 : 열여드레
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Winter's Smile : day nineteen 겨울의 미소 : 열아흐레
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 I Want to Go to the Island : day twenty 그 섬에 가고 싶다 : 스무날
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Smell : day twenty-one 냄새 : 스무하루
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Seoul, Book of the Dead : day twenty-two 서울, 사자의 서 : 스무이틀
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Lack of Air : day twenty-three 공기의 부족 : 스무사흘
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Autopsy : day twenty-four 부검 : 스무나흘
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Every Day : day twenty-five 나날 : 스무닷새
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Mommy of Death : day twenty-six 죽음의 엄마 : 스무엿새
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 aeiou : day twenty-seven 아 에 이 오 우 : 스무이레
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Already : day twenty-eight 이미 : 스무여드레
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Dinner Menu : day twenty-nine 저녁메뉴 : 스무아흐레
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 A Gift : day thirty 선물 : 서른날
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Hiccups : day thirty-one 딸꾹질 : 서른하루
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 A Lie : day thirty-two 거짓말 : 서른이틀
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 By the River of Formalin : day thirty-three 포르말린 강가에서 : 서른사흘
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Death Swarmswarms : day thirty-four 우글우글 죽음 : 서른나흘
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Lowering the Coffin : day thirty-five 하관 : 서른닷새
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Lord No : day thirty-six 아님 : 서른엿새
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 A Lullaby : day thirty-seven 자장가 : 서른이레
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 A Crow Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest : day thirty-eight 뻐꾸기 둥지 위로 날아든 까마귀 : 서른여드레
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Icicle Glasses : day thirty-nine 고드름 안경 : 서른아흐레
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Such Painful Hallucination : day forty 이렇게 아픈 환각 : 마흔날
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Marine Blue Feathers : day forty-one 푸른 터럭 : 마흔 하루
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Name : day forty-two 이름 : 마흔이틀
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 A Face : day forty-three 면상 : 마흔사흘
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 A Doll : day forty-four 인형 : 마흔나흘
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Underworld : day forty-five 황천 : 마흔닷새
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Asphyxiation : day forty-six 질식 : 마흔엿새
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Heart's Exile : day forty-seven 심장의 유배 : 마흔이레
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Moon Mask : day forty-eight 달 가면 : 마흔여드레
Kim Hyesoon 김혜순 Don’t : day forty-nene 마요 : 마흔아흐레

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