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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center Poetry Archive		Aase Berg Aase Berg is a poet, literary critic and translator. She grew up outside Tensta in Stockholm, where she was born in 1967. Her first book, Hos rådjur (With Deer), was published by Bonnier in 1997. This was followed by Mörk Materia (Dark Matter), a book-length science-fiction prose poem, in 2000. Her third book, Forsla fett (Transfer Fat), was nominated for the prestigious Augustpriser for the best poetry book of 2002. In 2005, she published her fourth book, Uppland. Her essays on literature and culture have appeared in BLM, Göteborgs-Posten and 00-tal, among other places. She currently resides in Stockholm. About the translator: Johannes Göransson is the co-editor of Action Books, which published his collection of translations Remainland: Selected Poems of Aase Berg last fall. He has guest-edited special Swedish poetry issues for the journal Fourteen Hills and the on-line journal Typo. His poems and translations can be found in various journals, such as jubilat, conduit, Double Room and Octopus.

Hal tid Aase Berg Slippery Hal From Remainland translated by Johannes Göransson

När odöd Harey låsts i kapsel som slungas ut i kosmos skum och den dementa datorn sjunger sin plancktidssång i viktlöst rum Det frosch Det— krasslar When undead Harey is locked in a capsule which is slung out into the cosmos murk and the demented computer sings its plancktime song in weightless space It snuffs It— crustles

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