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58 reviewsKim Hyesoon’s poems “create a seething, imaginative under-and over-world where myth & politics, the every day & the fabulous, bleed into each other” (Sean O’Brien, The Independent)
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 & narrates our historical death - how we have died & 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, & 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, & meditation.
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Kim Hyesoon is the author of several books of poetry & essays. She has received many awards for her poetry, including the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize for Autobiography of Death & the prestigious Samsung Ho-Am Prize in 2022.
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Don Mee Choi is the author of the National Book Award winning collection DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020), Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016), The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), & several chapbooks & pamphlets of poems & essays. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowship, Whiting Award, Lannan Literary Fellowship, Lucien Stryk Translation Prize, & DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellowship. She has translated several collections of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry.
