Kim Hyesoon’s poems “create a seething, imaginative under-and over-world where myth and politics, the everyday and the fabulous, bleed into each other” (Sean O’Brien, The Independent) 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 ...
Kim Hyesoon’s poems “create a seething, imaginative under-and over-world where myth and politics, the everyday and the fabulous, bleed into each other” (Sean O’Brien, The Independent) 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.
作者简介
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Kim Hyesoon, born in 1955, is one of the most prominent and influential contemporary poets of South Korea. She was the first woman poet to receive the prestigious Kim Su-yong and Midang awards, and has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Swedish. Her most recent books include I'm OK, I'm Pig! and Poor Love Machine.
Kim Hyesoon, born in 1955, is one of the most prominent and influential contemporary poets of South Korea. She was the first woman poet to receive the prestigious Kim Su-yong and Midang awards, and has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Swedish. Her most recent books include I'm OK, I'm Pig! and Poor Love Machine.
Born in Seoul, Don Mee Choi is the author of Hardly War and The Morning News is Exciting. She is a recipient of a Whiting Award, Lannan Literary Fellowship, and Lucien Stryk Translation Prize.
The woman gasps. As her lips part, her shy skull’s teeth line up like dining room chairs. As her yellowish flesh hardens, her shy red roses turn blue. Put a mask on that woman’s rose! The prison door opens and her rancid-smelling heart is laid out. Put a diaper on that woman’s heart! (查看原文)
Death is plural hence you write in this physical and rhythmic language called pain. I was again amazed by how conscious and reflective other Asian people are about life and power.
Heavy, powerful, tearful/when death is not beautify or romanticize, death is death/too many good contents in the interview as always/“if my wings were as big as the Pacific Ocean, I could embrace the ...Heavy, powerful, tearful/when death is not beautify or romanticize, death is death/too many good contents in the interview as always/“if my wings were as big as the Pacific Ocean, I could embrace the sunken ferry.”(展开)
0 有用 -Hyperion- 2024-11-12 20:50:57 荷兰
Death is plural hence you write in this physical and rhythmic language called pain. I was again amazed by how conscious and reflective other Asian people are about life and power.
0 有用 热风 2024-08-19 00:03:35 新加坡
Like midnight tears dissolve into the Pacific Ocean
0 有用 来跳舞 2024-10-11 16:21:04 江苏
惊人的把意象具象化的能力
0 有用 Ri.chmond 2020-02-19 08:03:07
Heavy, powerful, tearful/when death is not beautify or romanticize, death is death/too many good contents in the interview as always/“if my wings were as big as the Pacific Ocean, I could embrace the ... Heavy, powerful, tearful/when death is not beautify or romanticize, death is death/too many good contents in the interview as always/“if my wings were as big as the Pacific Ocean, I could embrace the sunken ferry.” (展开)