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...

Kim Hyesoon is one of South Korea's most important contemporary poets. She began publishing in 1979 and was one of the first few women in South Korea to be published in Munhak kwa jisong (Literature and Intellect), one of two key journals which championed the intellectual and literary movement...

A collection of poems by the contemporary Korean author Sunwoo Kim, translated into English by Christopher Merrill and Won-Chung Kim. Source URL : https://books.google.co.kr/books/about/...

Dentifricetristesse crèmemiroir (2011) est le dixième recueil de poèmes de Kim Hyesoon. L'univers de Kim est notamment reconnu pour son imagination débordante et insolite, sa sensibilité...

Les poèmes de Ra Hee-duk (lauréate de nombreux prix prestigieux en Corée du Sud) invitent le lecteur à saisir l'étrangeté du quotidien, à faire un pas de côté. Dans Le ver à soie marqué d'un point...

It has been a great year for Asian American poetry. Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Ghost of (Omnidawn) and Jenny Xie’s Eye Level (Graywolf), both gorgeous debuts I’ve been recommending to everyone, were finalists for the National Book Award for Poetry. Many more have been included on the year’s “Best Of”...

Kim Hyesoon's <Autobiography of Death=죽음의 자서전> is announced the Longlist for the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards.

A Book Review of Kim Hyesoon's <Autobiography of Death 죽음의 자서전> Questions of the agency and effects of death, in both individual and mass tragedies, are central to this extraordinary collective elegy from Kim (All the Garbage of the World, Unite!). “The only thing you can give birth to...

The 2nd Asian Literature Festival was held in Gwangju from Nov. 6 to 9. It was an exhilarating and enlightening experience to be among fellow Asian writers getting together to wield literature as a weapon of peace.

An introduction of Kim hyesoon's English translation <Autobiography of Death 죽음의 자서전>

In the poem that bears the title of Kim Hyesoon’s remarkable book “Mommy Must be a Fountain of Feathers” (elegantly translated by Don Mee Choi), motherhood blooms outward until the private world of her children is transformed into a vast feathered incubator: At mommy’s house, the floors are...

I first heard Kim Hyesoon at Poetry Parnassus, the global festival of poetry which took place in London’s Olympic year. Kim Hyesoon shared the stage with Seamus Heaney. It was the last time I heard Seamus Heaney read in public and the first time I heard Kim Hyesoon, and even at the time it felt...