The Space of Time by Katarina Frostenson and translated by Bradley Harmon

This is poetry from Sweden.

The Space of Time by Katarina Frostenson translated by Bradley Harmon is published by Threadsuns. This is a Book originally written in Swedish. This was published in 2024.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78173469116E12.

Katarina Frostenson’s The Space of Time, translated by Bradley Harmon, is a Swedish poetry entry that seems built around the pressure between abstraction and breath. Frostenson’s work often feels interested in what language can do before it becomes explanation: a syllable, an interval, a pause, a fragment of perception that refuses to settle into prose. I would not describe this book as difficult in the punitive sense. It is difficult in the way weather is difficult, because one can feel it before one can name its direction. Published by Threadsuns, the book belongs on the shelf as an example of contemporary Swedish poetry that thinks through sound, silence, and the body’s relation to time.

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.

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