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Autobiography of death / Kim Hyesoon ; drawings by Fi Jae Lee ; translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi.

by Kim, Hye-sun, 1955-

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New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2018.

Kim, Hye-sun, 1955- -- Translations into English.

Griffin Poetry Prize.

9780811227346 (hc.)

110 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Translated from the Korean.

Commute : day one -- Calendar : day two -- Photograph : day three -- Lean on the water : day four -- Midnight sun : day five -- After you're gone : day six -- Tibet : day seven -- Orphan : day eight -- Everyday everyday everyday : day nine -- Namesake : day ten -- Butterfly : day eleven -- Lunar eclipse : day twelve -- Gravel skirt : day thirteen -- Next : day fourteen -- Death's magic compressed distance : day fifteen -- Naked body : day sixteen -- A grave : day seventeen -- Black fishnet gloves : day eighteen -- Winter's smile : day nineteen -- I want to go to the island : day twenty -- Smell : day twenty-one -- Seoul, book of the dead : day twenty-two -- Lack of air : day twenty-three -- Autopsy : day twenty-four -- Every day : day twenty-five -- Mommy of death : day twenty-six -- A e i o u : day twenty-seven -- Already : day twenty-eight -- Dinner menu : day twenty-nine -- A gift : day thirty -- Hiccups : day thirty-one -- A lie : day thirty two -- By the river of formalin : day thirty-three -- Death swarmswarms : day thirty-four -- Lowering the coffin : day thirty-five -- Lord no : day thirty-six -- A lullably : day thirty-seven -- A crow flew over the cuckoo's nest : day thirty-eight -- Icicle glasses : day thirty-night -- Such painful hallucination : day forty -- Marine blue feathers : day forty-one -- Name : day forty-two -- A face : day forty-three -- A doll : day forty-four -- Underworld : day forty-five -- Asphyxiation : day forty-six -- Heart's exile : day forty-seven -- Moon mask : day forty-eight -- Don't : day forty-nine -- Face of rhythm -- An interview

"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 death--how we die 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"--Provided by publisher

Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (International), 2019.

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