{"product_id":"autobiography-of-death","title":"Autobiography of Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize Winner of the 2019 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI thought to myself that I needed to sing death, perform a rite for death, write death, then bid farewell to it. The way to send death away was to sing with my own death all the death in the sky and on the ground.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe title section of Kim Hyesoon’s visceral \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Death \u003c\/em\u003econsists 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’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Death\u003c\/em\u003e at once re-enacts 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: UK, 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: And Other Stories\u003cbr\u003ePages: 110\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1916751288\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781916751286\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kim Hyesoon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51611908800778,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781916751286.jpg?v=1754653293","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/autobiography-of-death","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}