Book record
Transfer Fat
Aase Berg
Translated from Swedish by Johannes Goransson
Transfer Fat, by Aase Berg, is a Swedish poetry collection from Sweden, translated by Johannes Göransson, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2012. It is a Swedish collection by Aase Berg that treats bodily substance, exchange, mutation, and grotesque tenderness as lyric material. The poems are not polite about embodiment, which is their gift; they make flesh strange enough that the reader has to feel it again. 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
- 2012
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- ISBN
- 9781933254920