Sense Violence by Helena Boberg and translated by Johannes Göransson

This is poetry from Sweden.

Sense Violence by Helena Boberg translated by Johannes Göransson is published by Black Ocean. This is a Book originally written in Swedish. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781939568311E12.

Sense Violence, by Helena Boberg, is a Swedish poetry collection from Sweden, translated by Johannes Göransson, published by Black Ocean in 2020. It is a Swedish collection where perception and force become inseparable, as though sensation itself had learned to bruise. Boberg’s poems suggest that violence is not always an event outside the self; it can arrive through seeing, naming, touching, and being made visible. 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.

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