{"title":"Kim Hyesoon","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"autobiography-of-death-paperback","title":"Autobiography of Death - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e*Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award*\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title section of Kim Hyesoon's powerful new book, \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, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376795910367,"sku":"9780811227346","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/cg_cR7wDR09780811227346.webp?v=1789225358"},{"product_id":"lady-no-hardcover","title":"Lady No - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the legendary avant-garde poet \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKim Hyesoon, a landmark collection documenting her first and only work of digital performance art to date.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Poetry in Korea has been a vaunted form--and traditionally left to men. Kim broke away from the masculine styles that came before her. . . . Kim has pursued a vernacular that's intensely Korean yet open to the world.\" --E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn March 2014, Kim Hyesoon, the grand dame of contemporary Korean poetry, began to post anonymously on the online blog of Munhakdongne, a major South Korean publisher. Rather than use her own name, Kim Hyesoon's chosen persona for these blog posts was Lady No. Fittingly, Lady No's writings are dissenting, combative, subversive, and ontologically feminine; formally, they defy any attempt at easy categorization. They are neither poems, nor are they prose, but a radical innovation Kim calls \u003ci\u003eshisanmun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003ean ungovernable style that heralds her internationally acclaimed works \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of Death\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePhantom Pain Wings\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe entries in this seminal collection, arranged chronologically and in their entirety here for the first time, are an eclectic hybrid of opinion editorials, aphorisms, recipes, daydreams, travelogues, art criticism, as well as treatises on the metaphysics of poetry and the current state of international literature. They take place in and around the world but most often they return to a country called Aerok, a frightening yet familiar mirror of contemporary Korea. First unwittingly, and then with concentrated grief, they chart the course of one of the most politically significant years in recent South Korean history: the sinking of the MV Sewol on the morning of April 16th that killed 304 people, including 250 high school students, and the reverberations of this national tragedy that culminated in the impeachment and ouster of the country's then-sitting president. Taken together, these writings bear witness to the people's shame, mourning, and perseverance under a corrupt administration\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003ea painful public reckoning not dissimilar from our own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurreal but visceral, and inflected with both humor and rage, \u003ci\u003eLady No \u003c\/i\u003econtains perhaps the most accessible of Kim Hyesoon's writing to date and documents her first and only work of digital performance art. Totaling 179 individual entries and featuring 34 drawings by the artist Fi Jae Li, \u003ci\u003eLady No \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the inner and outer lives of contemporary Korean women and embodies the inextricable link between social justice and literary citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378728632543,"sku":"9780063446687","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/WB40Yd9M509780063446687.webp?v=1789261599"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/kim-hyesoon.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}