Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi Hugh Dunkerley which opens with a section

which opens with a section of quarantine poems

a lifetime in the making

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Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi Hugh Dunkerley which opens with a sectionPublished 3rd June 2025. Autobiography of Death, Kims most compelling work to date, at once re enacts trauma and narrates death how we die and how we survive within the structure of death, that we remain living in. 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.