If All Songs Should Disappear with Me

A posthumous collection of poems by a poet who struggled against an oppressive military dictatorship. The eighty-three poems of this volume range from poems written shortly after his literary debut and during his imprisonment to more recent ones written just before his demise in 1994. Also included here are Kim”s diary, which he kept while bedridden from 1992 to 1993, notes that he made while composing poems, and his letters from prison.