Aase Berg's "Death" is a book that continues with a lot of the deep-sea imagery of her 2001 book "Forsla Fett," which I translated as "Transfer Fat" (Ugly Duckling 2012). In particular it can be seen as a sequel to this poem:
Öppna väljaren
Tandad val
strandad val
öppen val
öppen rum
oval
av gummirum | | Open the Voter
Toothed whale
beached whale
open whale
open space
unwhale
of rubber rooms |
Johannes Göransson on "Beached Whale" |
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Reginald Dwayne Betts' Stories from His “Writing Life”
"Reginald Dwayne Betts, legal scholar, writer, and education and prison reform advocate, aims to build 1,000 libraries in prisons across the country. Now, he will put copies of his own book—on the craft and significance of writing—in these very libraries. 'I read similar books when I was inside and those books always helped me think about what it meant to be a writer and the process of actually putting pen to paper and going one letter to the next.'"
via YALE DAILY NEWS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Dujie Tahat on Hoa Nguyen's A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
"Nguyen magnificently opens us up in an almost tessellation-like effect, zooming in in order to zoom out. In reading A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure, I was often reminded of Denise Levertov’s 'Accuracy is always the gateway to mystery.' However, Nguyen provides—to this reader, at least—not just mystery, but a new orientation towards lyric." |
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