Transfer Fat by Aase Berg and translated by Johannes Göransson

This is poetry from Sweden.

Transfer Fat by Aase Berg translated by Johannes Göransson is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Swedish. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78193325492E12.

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.

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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