Collobert Orbital by Johan Jonson and translated by Johannes Göransson

This is poetry from Sweden.

Collobert Orbital by Johan Jonson translated by Johannes Göransson is published by Displaced Press. This is a Book originally written in Swedish. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780982212011E12.

Collobert Orbital, by Johan Jonson, is a Swedish poetry collection from Sweden, translated by Johannes Göransson, published by Displaced Press in 2009. It is a Swedish collection orbiting around influence, extremity, and the afterimage of literary intensity. Jonson’s title suggests a poetics of circling: around another writer, around history, around the impossible pull of language that will not settle. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Sweden; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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