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Johannes Goransson

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born

Sweden

gender

male

genre

Contemporary Swedish and Finnish, Poetry

influences

immigration, homelessness, New Translation

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Johannes Göransson is interested in approaches to writing that crosses boundaries – such as genre conventions and linguistic borders – and blurs the demarcations of the autonomous text. He is the author of three books of his own writings – A New Quarantine Will Take My Place, Dear Ra and Pilot (Johann the Carousel Horse) – with one more forthcoming in 2011, The Entrance Pageant. He wrote a performance piece The Widow Party, which was performed at Links Hall in Chicago in 2008. He is also the translator of the works of several modern and contemporary Swedish and Finland Swedish poets and writers – including Aase Berg, Henry Parland and Johan Jönson.

He has written critically about contemporary American and Swedish poetry, translation theory,...more

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Books by Johannes Goransson

Average rating: 4.43 · 149 ratings · 27 reviews · 13 distinct works

	A New Quarantine Will Take My Place 4.41 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Dear Ra 4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Entrance to a colonial pageant in which we all begin to intricate 4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	a new quarantine will take my place 4.52 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Pilot 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Pilot 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	In Praise of Virgins (chapbook) 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	With Deer =: Hos Radjur by Aase Berg, Johannes Goransson (translator) 4.38 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Remainland: Selected Poems by Aase Berg, Johannes Goransson (Translator) 4.41 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	First Year : an mlp anthology by J.A. Tyler (Goodreads Author) (Editor), P.H. Madore (Goodreads Author), Colin Bassett (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2010	My rating: