Laura Mullen's "The Veil"

I wrote a post about Laura Mullen's video poem, "The Veil" on Montevidayo. Find it here.

Forsla Fett/Transfer Fat by Aase Berg

You can now buy my translation of seminal contemporary Swedish poet Aase Berg's third book, Forsla fett ("Transfer Fat") at the Ugly Duckling Presse site: http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=211

And you can read "Forest of Flinches," Joyelle McSweeney's analysis of the book on Montevidayo: http://www.montevidayo.com/?p=2535

Star Fuckers: Warhol, Björling, Parland

Over on Montevidayo, I've written a post about Andy Warhol and the Factory, and the strange "factory" of Gunnar Björling and Henry Parland, Finland Swedish modernist poets.

New Book by Kim Hyesoon

Action Books is psyched to announce that we've got a new book from amazing Korean phenom Kim Hyesoon now for sale. Buy it for 12 bucks at www.actionbooks.org (or 20 bucks for the new one plus the previous one, Mommy Must Be A Fountain of Feathers) or for 16 bucks at SPD Books or Amazon.com.


Now available on www.actionbooks.org and SPD Books: All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon (translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi). The celebrated Korean poet Kim Hyesoon writes from a radiant black zone where matter becomes dark matter, human becomes trinket, garbage becomes god, a zero-point for our present moment's grotesque and spectacular inversions. This volume includes a selection of recent work, the landmark poem "Manhole Humanity," and the essay "In the Oxymoronic World." With fiercely incisive translations and a preface by Don Mee Choi.

"As garbage, love and death accumulate in her poems, your world will be changed for real!"—Aase Berg

"The final poem “Manhole Humanity” deserves its place alongside Césarire’s “Notebook of a Return to the Native Land” or Ginsberg’s “Howl” or Inger Christensen’s It. Kim Hyesoon’s new book is armament and salve, shield and medicinal chant. It’s here to protect us." - Christian Hawkey

ALL THE GARBAGE OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
On the seat you left, two beer bottles, a cigarette butt, two pieces of scratch paper.
Why are you screening my calls, my messages? Don’t you have anything else to do?
You are the bourgeoisie of communication. Why am I always afraid of the phone?
When you look at me, I always feel as if I should change into something else.
How about changing myself into a bundle of clothes dumped on the sofa
or a pale pink wad of bubble gum dangling from someone’s lips
like the poor tummies of all the animals that flail about when they are turned over?
Do you know?
Eyesnavel god. Forearmsearflap god.Read more »

Nathalie Djurberg

I wrote a piece on the necropastoral and Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg's exhibit at the Walker, The Parade.

Tranströmer wins Nobel Prize

I wrote a little post about Tranströmer in honor of his winning the Nobel Prize.

New Issue of Action, Yes

New special Swedish issue of Action, Yes, guest edited by Anna Thörn and Sara Tuss Efrik, featuring art, texts, performances by Stina Kajaso, Cia Rinne, Ida Börjel, Leif Holmstrand and a whole slew of others: http://www.actionyes.org/index.htm



And here's a notice from Svenska Dagbladet.