Book record
Damascus, Atlantis
Marie Silkeberg
Translated from Swedish by Kelsi Vanada
Damascus, Atlantis, by Marie Silkeberg, is a Swedish poetry collection from Sweden, translated by Kelsi Vanada, published by Terra Nova Press in 2021. It is a Swedish collection whose paired cities evoke ruin, myth, war, disappearance, and submerged memory. Silkeberg's poems feel drawn to places that are both real and legendary, where the names of cities become vessels for mourning what history keeps flooding. 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.
- Published
- 2021
- Publisher
- Terra Nova Press
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- ISBN
- 9781949597110