Verlag | Nightboat Books |
Auflage | 2024 |
Seiten | 88 |
Format | 13,1 x 1,0 x 22,8 cm |
Gewicht | 180 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9781643622361 |
Bestell-Nr | 64362236UA |
An elemental, uncanny collection of poems translated from one of Sweden's most influential and beloved poets.
In Lonespeech, Ann Jäderlund rewires the correspondence between writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan into a series of stark, runic poems about the fraught act of communication and its failures. Forsaking her reputation as a baroque poet, Jäderlund uses simple words and phrases in favor of an almost childlike simplicity, giving her poems, on first glance, the appearance of parables: mountains, sunlight, rivers, aortas. Upon closer inspection, the poems glitch, bend, and torque into something else, enigmatic and forceful, lending them, as Jäderlund says, the force of "clear velocity."