*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 death-how 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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