{"title":"Kim Hyesoon","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"phantom-pain-wings","title":"Phantom Pain Wings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (USA)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinter 2024 Poetry Book Society Translation Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKim Hyesoon here shapeshifts into birds as she explores trauma, grief and parting. Kim mixes folklore and mythology with contemporary psychodramatic realities as she taps into a cremation ceremony, Rimbaud, Agnès Varda, Francis Bacon’s portrait of Pope Innocent X, cyclones and more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Reads like a variety of horror – haunted, grotesque, futureless. I love the way scale works here; both largeness and smallness can be forms of strength, the tiny and the epic. … In Kim’s metapoetics, the apparent futility of poetry is part of its surreptitious power.’ \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, The Best Poetry of 2023\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"And Other Stories","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53592307597697,"sku":"9781916751200","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/files\/jpg_rgb_1500h_798fa0e3-3e8b-4306-88a4-510c865471c2.jpg?v=1752241360"},{"product_id":"autobiographyofdeath","title":"Autobiography of Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2019 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘I thought to myself that I needed to sing death, perform a rite for death, write death, then bid farewell to it. The way to send death away was to sing with my own death all the death in the sky and on the ground.’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe title section of Kim Hyesoon’s visceral \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Death\u003c\/em\u003e 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’. \u003cem\u003eAutobiography of Death\u003c\/em\u003e at once re-enacts trauma and narrates death – how we die 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"And Other Stories","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":54299641217409,"sku":"9781916751286","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/files\/jpg_rgb_1500h_a7fa72bd-f378-4177-8333-61544e58e7eb.jpg?v=1752241349"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/kim-hyesoon-1\/kim-hyesoon.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}