Lonespeech

By Ann Jäderlund

Book Overview

An elemental, uncanny collection of poems translated from one of Sweden's most influential and beloved poets.
In Lonespeech, Ann J derlund rewires the correspondence between writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan into a series of stark, runic poems about the fraught act of communication and its failures. Forsaking her reputation as a baroque poet, J derlund uses simple words and phrases in favor of an almost childlike simplicity, giving her poems, on first glance, the appearance of parables: mountains, sunlight, rivers, aortas. Upon closer inspection, the poems glitch, bend, and torque into something else, enigmatic and forceful, lending them, as J derlund says, the force of "clear velocity."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643622366
• ISBN13: 9781643622361
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 8.9"