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Terra Nova Press
Damascus, Atlantis
Selected Poems
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Marie Silkeberg translated by Kelsi Vanada
Poems from a major Swedish poet, responding to some of the most wrenching events of recent decades, including globalization and the war in Syria.
Marie Silkeberg has been a major voice in Swedish poetry since the early 1990s. In these poems, drawn from her books Till Damaskus and Atlantis, translated by Kelsi Vanada, she tackles some of the most wrenching events of recent decades—globalization, the escalating war in Syria, and its ongoing aftermath and consequences. The speaker of these poems lives in a reality informed by these events and by an older European history. Taking the standpoint of listener and observer forced to confront the horrors in present tense, the poems question how we share the pain of others, and how the meeting between different experiences of trauma influences language. The poems are matched with stills from her poetry films, putting word and image in dialogue to explore ruins, cityscapes, the echoes of history, all into the depth of language’s power.
Marie Silkeberg is a poet, translator, and filmmaker living in Stockholm.
“In Atlantis, Silkeberg shows what a crucial poet she is. Not a misplaced word, never a comma that breaks the reading rhythm. Just sit still and let the wonder overtake you.” —Kristian Lundberg, Aftonbladet
May | 6 1/2 x 8 1/4 256 pp. | 30 color illus.
US $25.95T/$34.95 CAN paper
978-1-949597-11-0
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May | 6 1/2 x 8 1/4 256 pp. | 30 illus.
US $27.95T/$36.95 CAN paper
978-1-949597-13-4
