If I were a suicide bomber & other verses by Per Aage Brandt and translated by Thom Satterlee

This is poetry from Denmark.

If I were a suicide bomber & other verses by Per Aage Brandt translated by Thom Satterlee is published by Open Letter. This is a Book originally written in Danish. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781940953649E12.

If I were a suicide bomber & other verses, by Per Aage Brandt, is a Danish poetry collection from Denmark, translated from Danish by Thom Satterlee, published by Open Letter in 2017. It is a Danish collection by Per Aage Brandt, translated by Thom Satterlee, with a deliberately disturbing title that tests lyric provocation. The book should be approached with attention to voice, irony, ethical pressure, and the dangers of turning violence into thought experiment. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

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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