Autobiography of Death Friederike Mayröcker Elisabeth Houston

Elisabeth Houston

This edition is based on the Portuguese Tinta-da-china edition and includes an illuminating introduction about Campos by the Portuguese editors Jerónimo Pizarro and Antonio Cardiello

but rather only life

What was originally a five line 5-7-5-7-7-syllable verse form Ishii writes in one line

selfishness and the dissolution of self

Autobiography of Death Friederike Mayröcker Elisabeth HoustonKim Hyesoon (trans. Don Mee Choi) The title section of Kim Hyesoon's powerful book, Autobiography of Death, 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."