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A review by saborlitino
Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon
challenging
dark
sad
fast-paced
3.5
It is so hard to rate something like this, but the author and translator did an outstanding job. Reading their discussion at the end help bring the whole collection together.
My favorites were “Commute”, “I Want to Go to the Island”, “Autopsy”, and “Marine Blue Feathers”. The rest, like the author suggests, blend into an amorphous death poem that is hard to discern what happened. This is what I attribute the 3.5 rating to, just a vibe.
I will have to read this again, so my rating may change, but it is clear Kim Hyesoon is a master poet. This insight alone blew me away:
My favorites were “Commute”, “I Want to Go to the Island”, “Autopsy”, and “Marine Blue Feathers”. The rest, like the author suggests, blend into an amorphous death poem that is hard to discern what happened. This is what I attribute the 3.5 rating to, just a vibe.
I will have to read this again, so my rating may change, but it is clear Kim Hyesoon is a master poet. This insight alone blew me away:
Poetry is a place in which names are never called out. It's a place where names are erased.