<![CDATA[With Deer]]>

false <![CDATA[With Deer]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235162357m/6202986.jpg 6202986 1 In this, her first single-volume collection to be published in English, Aase Berg works a wicked necromancy in her poems. Filling each page with fluids and viscera she plunges into the palpable, pulsating center of our psyche--pulling up fistfuls of nightmares at once strange and familiar. To read this book is to glimpse the ecstasy you always suspected lay at the heart of every rapturous horror. With Deer [Hos rÃ¥djur] was Berg's first full-length book of poetry, originally published in Sweden in 1996. Since then she has published four more books in her native language, exploring the divine terror throbbing beneath the surface of a naturalistic and barely human world. Praise for With Deer: Oh, you have taken it too far, Aase Berg, on this field trip to dismember an apocalyptic body that is self-bomb, culture-bomb; you are scratching at the interior of the bomb that has no exterior. Amusedly, bombastically, terrifyingly you scratch. Johannes Goransson's translation is lush and boldly guttural and the two of you have my intestines by a leash. "One by one you turned my faces up/toward the sun's surface/and drank them like deer water." --Cathy Wagner Aase Berg's poems deepdive through the perversity of nature, groping the outer edges of subjectivity. Along this super-charged border dichotomies infest one another--inside/outside, human/animal, animate/inanimate, macro/micro--and desire cannibalizes all. Think Hansel and Gretel on acid, think of the horrors of cookie dough. If this unflinching and awesome collection is the shape of modern poetry, then, as Bob Hope said in his 1965 United Artists modernist classic, "I'll take Sweden." --Dodie Bellamy These poems have the scent of a lost hermetic text extracted from the oily black clay of a ruined forest. Long suppressed scenes of deliberate, feral ritual and the thrill of animal submission are herein joyfully revealed. --Michael Gira 6383493 23 3 2009 With Deer total:44|5:31|4:10|3:3|2:0|1:0| 44 204 74 8 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 25 11:27:42 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 10:33:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 24 12:32:15 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 12:21:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 11:18:59 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 07:54:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 20 12:17:18 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 12:21:21 -0800 2009
Violent, edgey, extreme. Excessive. Etc. Etc.

and, according to Tomaz Salamun and others, the book of the 2009 Chicago AWP.

If you're interested in reading an interview I did with Johannes Goransson (he's the translator)-- about "Wi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 08 11:13:06 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 11:13:06 -0700 2009
Despite being so grotesque, these are quiet poems. Or perhaps I am anesthetized.

A TIP: If you, as I do, have audiophile love partners who are new and/or reticent to poetry, you might try to lure them with Michael Gira's blurb endor...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 05 20:44:46 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 20:44:46 -0700 2009
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