Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Swedish by Johannes Goransson. Aase Berg's TRANSFER FAT (Forsla fett), nominated in 2002 for Sweden's prestigious Augustpriset for the best poetry book, is a haunting amalgamation of languages and elements of science, of pregnancy, of whales, of the naturally and unnaturally grotesque that births things unforeseen and intimately alien. Johannes Goransson's translation captures the seething instability of Berg's bizarre compound nouns and linguistic contortions. "The super-electron microscope Berg has used in her research shows the world's smallest particles the vibrations of strings (belly buttons, violin strings, super strings) announcing that matter is music and music is language and language is matter. As in the singularity of a black hole, the reader will find that time and space have become one, and that there are words in all directions."...
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