1. In all of your work, there are a lot of “kanter” (edges) and “brott” (breakage, also crime). What do these words mean to you? The breakage: to live one's own death. Edges: to hang over one's own abyss from [...]
“Trap Poetics” [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] Accessibility Text This page consists of a more linear text. The text is tilted in various ways in order to appear crooked. Trap Poetics is sissy Dada: Translations [...]
“Ecolyric is elegiac, choral, polyvocal, interrupt-ed/-ive, allusive, collaged, curated, composted, translative. It is document, artifact, dirge, trace.” –Angela Hume I. I’m drawn to Angela Hume’s description of the ecolyric in Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene because [...]
This review first appeared in Göteborgs-Posten on 2013-07-11 Translated by Johannes Göransson On the inside cover of Helena Boberg’s new poetry collection, Sense Violence, the follow-up to her strong debut Repulse, there’s a reproduction of an artwork by [...]
1. How did you start translating Gabriela Mistral’s Tala? What drew you to it? I’m drawn to Gabriela Mistral’s radical simplicity, her coarse beauty, how she grounds her poetics in the Elqui Valley’s landscape, her local landscape, despite the [...]
“Things” From Tala (1938) By Gabriela Mistral Translated by Anna Deeny Morales For Fritz (Federico) H. Andersen, my stepfather. (1942–2020) Things For Max Daireaux 1 I love the things I never [...]
“We are, in this sense, already in the other world. We stream into it. Or out of it?” - Fanny Howe, Night Philosophy Through citing herself alongside Hölderlin, the UN’s Rights of the Children and Ilona Karmel’s “Childhood [...]
“Trap Poetics” [Part 1] [Part 2] Accessibility Text This page consists of a more linear text with accompanying pictures, which will be described as they are encountered. The text is tilted in various ways in order to appear crooked. [...]
Final Fantasy VII (2020) 1. According to Bataille in "The Language of Flowers," flowers can be a "spectacle," like fields or forests. With their "contortions of tendrils" and "unusual lacerations," Bataille suggests that a spectator might feel a [...]
