Autobiography of Death Jan Kuijper

Autobiography of Death Jan KuijperKim 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

evocative and elusive

Heimrad Bäcker (1925-2003) devoted decades to the development of a singular documentary style

a dog skeleton

in je geweten

but no one to give it to

He dies in the asylum one year later

Mischa Andriessen vertelt in Het Drogsyndicaat het verhaal van de zondvloed als straf voor een onverantwoordelijke omgang met mens

Lupe Gómez (trans

It was one of the first artistic responses to the violence of the fascist junta

"These sentences—they—will begin having already been sentences somewhere else

a defence of poetry

Slangen krioelen in de sarcofaag van het heden