Book record
Sense Violence
Helena Boberg
Translated from Swedish by Johannes Goransson
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.
- Published
- 2020
- Publisher
- Black Ocean
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- ISBN
- 9781939568311