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With Deer (Paperback, New)
Aase Berg; Translated by Johannes G oransson
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Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Johannes Göransson. In
this, her first single-volume collection to be published in
English, Aase Berg works a wicked necromancy in her poems. Filling
each page with fluids and viscera she plunges into the palpable,
pulsating center of our psyche--pulling up fistfuls of nightmares
at once strange and familiar. To read this book is to glimpse the
ecstasy you always suspected lay at the heart of every rapturous
horror. WITH DEER [Hos rådjur] was Berg's first full-length book
of poetry, originally published in Sweden in 1996. Since then she
has published four more books in her native language, exploring the
divine terror throbbing beneath the surface of a naturalistic and
barely human world. Oh, you have taken it too far, Aase Berg, on
this field trip to dismember an apocalyptic body that is self-bomb,
culture-bomb; you are scratching at the interior of the bomb that
has no exterior. Amusedly, bombastically, terrifyingly you scratch.
Johannes Görannson's translation is lush and boldly guttural and
the two of you have my intestines by a leash. 'One by one you
turned my faces up / toward the sun's surface / and drank them like
deer water.'--Cathy Wagner
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