Aase Berg, With Deer, trans. Johannes Göransson

Hackers, Aase Berg, tr. Johannes Göransson

Alice Notley   The Descent of Alette

Aase Berg   Dark Matter  transl. J. Göransson

Aase Berg, Rävhjärta translated by Johannes Göransson

putterings, 238-232

  partially water, but position these entwines babbling for the sake of babbling, a kind of music   islands; apiary; garbage heap; patriarchy   all the shirts returned; a few readymades pasteboard and painted   personal, mysterious minor pursuits toys, amateur dressmaking   on Friday’s part, then, and only a letter withouting proof, machinist he   areca knowing nut how

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babbling for the sake of babbling, a kind of music

  ...Or to take care of their own childishness through playing, puttering, and creating things that are not considered important. The playground is the garbage heap of the patriarchy.       What, then, is the relationship between madness and games? Is language a game?

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ex Aase Berg, “Language and Madness,” a Featured Blogger post at poetryfoundation.org (April 3, 2019; translated by Johannes Göransson & Joyelle McSweeney) : link

more on the author — Poetry Foundation : link wikipedia : link

(emblematic) motto from earlier in same essay, on language before it was “instrumentalized.”  

do you have any interesting or fun sci-fi fantasy book recommendations? :0

yes actually!! i’m more into experimental sci fi, but i enjoyed three body problem by liu cixin (trans. ken liu) and the dispossessed by ursula k le guin (novel of all time actually). of course, my favorite work of science fiction is the cosmicomics by italo calvino (trans. william weaver) and i in fact recommend pretty much everything calvino ever wrote. invisible planets (the name of course inspired by calvino’s invisible cities) is a great anthology of contemporary chinese sci fi short stories (and a few pieces of critical writing) compiled and translated by ken liu. i also enjoyed exhalation by ted chiang, but i feel foolish even recommending it because i feel like everyone has read it in a post-arrival world lmao. as for lesser known works that i absolutely adored, the employees by olga ravn (trans. martin aitken) is incredible. i also love hackers by aase berg (trans. johannes göransson), dance dance revolution by cathy park hong, and astroecology by johannes heldén (trans. kirkwood adams, elizabeth clark wessel, and johannes heldén). aside from parable of the sower, which i read as a child and don’t remember very well, i’ve only read a couple short stories by octavia butler, but “speech sounds” and “bloodchild” are both very good. finally, while it’s not exactly a work of sci fi itself, the poetics of science fiction by peter stockwell is actually a really interesting book, and there’s a lot of great “classic” sci fi recs in there if you read it carefully.

anon web weaving inspooooo maybe... ab like obbssessive deep carnal delulu love thats not 100% requited but ummmmm you will make them love you back like you love them!

i will force you down my throat: a collection empire of the senseless, kathy acker / plague series from the living series by jenny holzer / luis cabellero / consumed, david cronenberg / love of the wolf, hélène cixous / house of leaves, mark z. danielewski / berlinde de bruyckere / hackers, aase berg / the shadow by daniela astone / lustmorde by jenny holzer / speculum, hannah copley / wishbone by richard siken / unknown

Here the horn-scarred hunter and the tall stag

Have exchanged places. Each is dancing

Inside the other

standing deer, jane hirshfield // 14.17 game night, supernatural // deer shedding velvet looks painful but it's all part of antler life, rachael funnell // 14.19 jack in the box, supernatural // 14.20 moriah, supernatural // the deer, laurie sheck // 7.09 how to win friends and influence monsters, supernatural // "deer fabric," aase berg // strange deer deaths reported in pennsylvania, daniel e. schmidt // 15.01 back and to the future // meat-eating deer, outdoor life // 15.11 the gamblers, supernatural // two deer fighting, ming jun tan // 15.19 inherit the earth, supernatural // 'a birthday masque,' ted hughes

part one

from Hackers, Aase Berg

The Sealey Challenge

Here’s my books for the second 10 days of the Sealey Challenge. First group of ten here. I’ll share poems if any are of interest 🌱🌱

11th - "antonyms for burial" by Ellora Sutton, Fourteen Publishing, 2022

12th- "Latch" by Rebecca Goss, Carcanet, 2023

13th - "Factory of Tears" by Valzhyna Mort, translated by Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright and Franz Wright, Copper Canyon Press, 2008

14th - "Selected Poems" by Mongane Wally Serote, AD. Donker / Publisher, 1982

15th - "Life on Mars” by Tracy K Smith, Graywolf Press, 2011

16th - "Notes from the North" by Suji Kwok Kim, Smith | Doorstop, 2022

17th - "Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, and Other Poems" by Ghassan Zaqtan, translated by Fady Joudah, Yale University Press, 2012

18th - "With Deer" by Aase Berg, translated by Johannes Göransson, Black Ocean, 2008

19th - "Poet in Andalucía" by Nathalie Handal, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012

20th - "With My Lips Pressed To The Ear Of The Earth" by Charlotte Baldwin, Nine Pens, 2023

Aase Berg, Transfer Fat, trans. Johannes Göransson

from With Deer by Aase Berg, tr. Johannes Göransson

Anne Carson - Autobiography of Red | Black Sails XXI | Aase Berg - Dark Matter

Hans vitogon giittrade. En sexualkvinna fangade med desperat lystnad hans kirurgblick.

Aase Berg, “Räv” Hos rådjur

Aase Berg, "Hyperparasites" from Hackers. Tr. by Johannes Göransson.