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    Lonespeech
    Lonespeech
    Lonespeech
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    Lonespeech

    By Ann Jäderlund and Johannes Goransson

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    An elemental, uncanny collection of poems translated from one of Sweden’s most influential and beloved poets.


    In Lonespeech, Ann Jäderlund 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, Jäderlund 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 Jäderlund says, the force of “clear velocity.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNightboat Books
    Release dateMay 21, 2024
    ISBN9781643622590
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