Book record
Ma
Ida Börjel
Translated from Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida
Ma, by Ida Börjel, is a Swedish poetry collection from Sweden, translated by Jennifer Hayashida, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2023. It is a Swedish collection by Ida Börjel that gathers motherhood, utterance, relation, and origin into a small charged syllable. The title's force is in its compression, the way one sound can hold care, demand, body, address, and the first difficult grammar of dependence. 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
- 2023
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- ISBN
- 9781946604057