Lonespeech by Jderlund, Ann

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Author: Jderlund, AnnPoetryPublished on 4 July 2024 by Nightboat Books in the United States.Paperback | 88 pages, Illustrations203 x 127 | 0g
An elemental, uncanny collection of poems translated from one of Swedens most influential and beloved poets.In Lonespeech, Ann Jderlund 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, Jderlund 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 Jderlund says, the force of clear velocity.