Blake Butler

Aase Berg’s Transfer Fat

2 Comments

1. February 21st, 2012 / 12:27 pm Erik Stinson—

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2. February 21st, 2012 / 11:54 pm deadgod—

   Going by the poems selected from Transfer Fat and Uppland in the “selected” Remainland (transl. also Goeransson), Celan is a reasonable (and not unflattering) comparison.  Berg is really quite good.  Here’s Goeransson’s version of While the Hare Rustles the Whale is Soft:

   the hare skindry the whale heavy of the bag’s fatmilk
   watersick