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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.

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Poetry
The therapist says, Picture a bird in your mind What kind of bird is it?
Kim Hyesoon translated by Don Mee Choi
Poetry
Kim Hyesoon

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