Kim Hyesoon

Kim Hyesoon is one of the most prominent contemporary poets of South Korea. Her recent poetry in translation, Autobiography of Death, won the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize.

Smell of Wings

The therapist says,
Picture a bird in your mind
What kind of bird is it?

  • Kim Hyesoon
  • Don Mee Choi

Driving in the Downpour

Translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi

  • Kim Hyesoon
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