These hands by Per Aage Brandt and translated by Thom Satterlee

This is poetry from Denmark.

These hands by Per Aage Brandt translated by Thom Satterlee is published by Host Publications. This is a Book originally written in Danish. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780924047749E12.

These hands, by Per Aage Brandt, is a Danish poetry collection from Denmark, translated from Danish by Thom Satterlee, published by Host Publications in 2010. It is a Danish collection by Per Aage Brandt, translated by Thom Satterlee, that begins from the most immediate instruments of touch and making. Hands are never just anatomical here; they imply work, guilt, tenderness, violence, gesture, and all the ways thought becomes action. 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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