these are strangely wonderful. his work is new to me. ~mIEKAL
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Date: December 26, 2006 1:40:45 PM CST
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Subject: RealPoetik - Johannes Goransson
Johannes Goransson was born in Sweden but lives in Indiana. He
translated "Remainland: Selected Poems of Aase Berg" (Action Books,
2005) and "Ideals Clearance" by Henry Parland (Ugly Duckling, 2007).
Two books of his poems will be published next year: "A New Quarantine
Will Take My Place" (Apostrophe Books) and "Pilot (Nattrangslighet)"
(Fairy Tale Review), from which the following poems were taken. See
them also in Swedish at realpoetik.blogspot.com.
Softpiece for authors (traumatology):
You rawed up
the corporate material
we cut from a bull's face
two hours ago
it was such a joy
to chalk over your iris
The whole being is being held together by a tough yet stretchable
membrane:
Shake mute out
a woman's
body with moths
there are more
warning signals
but none are
as chalked in
the crowded
assault display
Caption the sound of film melting with insects:
The white anatomy is
arrived picked clean from
a bird's-eye-perspective
shingles swans clash
overexposure-bright
with infected abdomens
the segments are absent
in the against-animals
the unsound is derived
from rinsed materials
~
Frequent www.realpoetik.blogspot.com.
