Taste of Steel the Smell of Snow by Pia Tafdrup and translated by David McDuff

This is poetry from Denmark.

Taste of Steel the Smell of Snow by Pia Tafdrup translated by David McDuff is published by Bloodaxe Books. This is a Book originally written in Danish. This was published in 2021.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781780375045E12.

Taste of Steel the Smell of Snow, by Pia Tafdrup, is a Danish poetry collection from Denmark, translated from Danish by David McDuff, published by Bloodaxe Books in 2021. It is a Danish collection by Pia Tafdrup, translated by David McDuff, whose title moves through metal, cold, sense, and bodily intensity. The pairing of taste and smell matters: these poems seem to ask the reader to think through the body before explanation arrives. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

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