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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Korean. |
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New York :
New Directions Publishing Corporation,
[2018]
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 110 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780811227346 0811227340 |