Lend me your voice by Kjell Espmark and translated by Robin Fulton Macpherson

This is poetry from Sweden.

Lend me your voice by Kjell Espmark translated by Robin Fulton Macpherson is published by Marick Press. This is a Book originally written in Swedish. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781934851227E12.

Lend me your voice arrives in this batch as a Sweden entry translated from Swedish by Robin Fulton Macpherson, and its title already opens a useful path into the book. I read it through Kjell Espmark’s lent voice, a Swedish work that thinks through address, inheritance, and the strange generosity of speaking through another register. That does not mean the book needs to be solved through those three ideas, only that they give a reader somewhere to stand before the language begins moving. What I want from a description here is permission: start with the image, the rhythm, the odd pressure of a phrase. Published by Marick Press, the book widens the library’s sense of what contemporary and modern Spanish-language literature can hold.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.