Autobiography of Death Perennial Fashion Presence Falling filmbeelden en krantenberichten roept hij

filmbeelden en krantenberichten roept hij in een ‘ritmiese typografie’ de beelden en geluiden op van de stad in al haar vervreemdende wanorde

Originally published in 1939

and now reissued by DABA

Darwish records what Raúl Zurita describes as “something immemorial

Autobiography of Death Perennial Fashion Presence Falling filmbeelden en krantenberichten roept hijKim Hyesoon (trans. Don Mee Choi) The title section of Kim Hyesoon's powerful 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."