| Dark Matter Contributor(s): Berg, Aase (Author), Göransson, Johannes (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0984475281 ISBN-13: 9780984475285 Publisher: Black Ocean OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Scandinavian - Poetry | European - General - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 839.718 |
| LCCN: 2012044699 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 7" (0.45 lbs) 188 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Johannes Göransson. Berg's hallucinatory, post-cataclysmic epic takes place in an unremitting future-past. The bodies mutate and hybridize. They are erotic and artificial, art and adrenaline. Available for the first time in English as a complete collection, the poems of this contemporary Swedish classic contaminate as they become contaminated--drawing on and altering source texts that range from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to string theory. Calling on fables, science, the pastoral, and the body, DARK MATTER aggravates their perception while exhausting poetry down to its nerve: a faint spasm of cheers before this, the nervous system's last chance to communicate with the dying I. The result: a monstrous zone of linguistic and bodily interpenetration, cell death, and radiant permutations. Extraordinary and urgent, a coded warning smuggled out of dark.--China Miéville Aase Berg's poetry is discomforting because it lacks boundaries.... When I read her I notice how my consciousness tries to separate, divide up and make sense of her almost hallucinatory images, but they always glide back together. I get nauseated and almost seasick from her texts.--Ĺsa Beckman |
Contributor Bio(s): Berg, Aase: - Swedish poet Aase Berg began her artistic trajectory as a member of the radical organization, the Surrealist Group of Stockholm. Her first book, Hos radjur (WITH DEER), was published in Sweden in 1996. Since then she has published Mork materia (DARK MATTER), Forsla fett (TRANSFER FAT), Uppland (Uppland) and Loss (Loss). Her first book to appear in English, REMAINLAND: SELECTED POEMS, was published by Action Books in 2004. She is considered one of the most influential and unique poets in Sweden, earning her translations into English and various European languages as well. |