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White Blight
Athena Farrokhzad
Translated from Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida
Athena Farrokhzad’s White Blight, translated from Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida, is a book of inheritance under pressure. It reads as a contemporary Swedish work shaped by family, migration, whiteness, political speech, and the difficulty of belonging to more than one history at once. I would not want the description to domesticate the book into an “identity” summary. The force is sharper than that. Farrokhzad’s poetry stages language as accusation, memory, and argument, often making the page feel like a room where several generations are speaking at once. Hayashida’s translation keeps the pressure audible. For this library, White Blight matters as a work of contemporary European poetry that understands family as both shelter and wound.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Argos Books
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- ISBN
- 9781938247217