Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi podcast 'I am drawn to paintings

'I am drawn to paintings that catch glimpses of ordinary people in rooms that lead to other rooms

Lounging in a Pinter script or pitched from a transit vans rolled-down window

a poem about the nuclear stalemate

it is the result of co-operation between people from both cities

Hajnoczky’s text gives language an intimate flavour but also transmutes the familiar into the foreign

Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi podcast 'I am drawn to paintingsPublished 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.