Death swarmswarms day thirty-four. Calendar day two -- Photograph day three -- Lean on the water day four -- Midnight sun day five -- After you're gone day six -- Tibet day seven -- Orphan day eight -- Everyday everyday everyday day nine -- Namesake day ten -- Butterfly day eleven -- Lunar eclipse day twelve -- Gravel skirt day thirteen -- Next day fourteen -- Death's magic compressed distance day fifteen -- Naked body day sixteen -- A grave day seventeen -- Black fishnet gloves day eighteen -- Winter's smile day nineteen -- I want to go to the island day twenty -- Smell day twenty-one -- Seoul, book of the dead day twenty-two -- Lack of air day twenty-three -- Autopsy day twenty-four -- Every day day twenty-five -- Mommy of death day twenty-six -- A e i o u day twenty-seven -- Already day twenty-eight -- Dinner menu day twenty-nine -- A gift day thirty -- Hiccups day thirty-one -- A lie day thirty two -- By the river of formalin day thirty-three -- Death swarmswarms day thirty-four.
Summary:
Kim Hyesoons poems “create a seething, imaginative under-and over-world where myth and politics, the everyday and the fabulous, bleed into each other” (Sean OBrien, The Independent).
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