Book record
Strata
Helena Eriksson
Translated from Swedish by Jan Teeland & Wendy Klein
Helena Eriksson’s Strata, translated from Swedish by Jan Teeland, is a book I would introduce through layers: sediment, memory, pressure, and the slow accumulation of perception. The title suggests a poetry interested in what lies under the visible surface, but not necessarily in a neat archaeological way. Poetry like this asks the reader to attend to thickness. A line may carry a landscape, a private history, a bodily trace, and a linguistic hesitation all at once. Published by Shearsman Books, the collection fits well within the translated poetry shelf as a Swedish work of compression and patience. It gives the reader permission to read downward rather than forward, noticing what language has stored beneath itself.
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Shearsman Books
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- ISBN
- 9781848612747