Kim Hyesoon

Autobiography of Death (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Choi, Don Mee

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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)

*Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award*

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 deathhow 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811227353
• Artikelnr.: 59590156

Autorenporträt

Kim Hyesoon is the author of several books of poetry and essays. She has received many awards for her poetry, including the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize for Autobiography of Death and the prestigious Samsung Ho-Am Prize in 2022.