e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Kim, Hye-sun, 1955-
Subjects
Kim, Hye-sun, 1955- -- Translations into English.
Griffin Poetry Prize.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Kim, Hye-sun, 1955-
by title:
Autobiography of dea...
by call number:
895.715 K49a
Search the Web
Kim, Hye-sun, 1955-
Kim, Hye-sun, 1955- -- Translations into English.
Griffin Poetry Prize.
MARC Display
Autobiography of death /
Kim
Hyesoon ; drawings by Fi Jae Lee ; translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi.
by
Kim
,
Hye-sun
,
1955-
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2018.
Call #:
895.715 K49a
Subjects
Kim
,
Hye-sun
,
1955-
--
Translations
into
English
.
Griffin Poetry Prize.
ISBN:
9780811227346 (hc.)
Description:
110 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Korean.
Contents:
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
Summary:
"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
Awards:
Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (International), 2019.
Other authors:
Yi, P'i
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
895.715 K49a
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.