Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Kim, Hye-sun, 1955-

Publication

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2018.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Choi, Don Mee
• Yi, P'i

Description

110 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Kim, Hye-sun, 1955- > Translations into English
• Kim, Hye-sun, 1955-
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics

Genre/Form

• Translations.
• Poetry.

Note

• 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.

Call Number

JFE 19-3123

ISBN

• 9780811227346
• 0811227340

LCCN

• 2018021515
• 40028762642

OCLC

1023527739

Author

Kim, Hye-sun, 1955- author.

Title

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

Publisher

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Choi, Don Mee, translator.

Yi, P'i, illustrator.

Other Form:

Online version: Kim, Hye-sun, 1955- Autobiography of death. New York : New Directions, 2018 9780811227353 (DLC) 2018025538

Other Standard Identifier

40028762642

Research Call Number

JFE 19-3123