Autobiography of Death

by Kim Hyesoon and 

*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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811227340
• ISBN13: 9780811227346
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"