Autobiography of Death Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer with the original Japanese

with the original Japanese

Four further collections were added to the second edition of Poems in 2005

Johanna Hedva

pattern and the use of constraints

touring with Bob Dylan

Autobiography of Death Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer with the original JapaneseKim Hyesoon 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. The title section of Kim Hyesoons visceral 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