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- Book Synopsis
- MA, Ida Börjel's award-winning abecedarian, is a maelstrom of voices cast in the underwater shadows and nuclear light of the Anthropocene. A refraction of Inger Christensen's seminal Alphabet, published in 1981, MA speaks a furious incantation in the past tense, a grammar of loss, from the vantage point of a disintegrating here and now. Appearing for the first time in English in Jennifer Hayashida's luminous translation, MA is less a curative than a testimonial, speaking simultaneously for the one and the many, the solitary mother and the insurgent multitude.
- About The Author
- Ida Börjel, poet and translator. Currently lives in Malmö, Sweden. In her award-winning books of poetry, including Sond (Probe), Skåneradio (Radio Scania), Konsumentköplagen: juris lyrik (The Consumers Purchase Act: juridical lyricisms), and MA, she is enquiring into and trying to enact our contemporary, linguistic, and societal conditions in relation to different forms of authority, sovereignty and juridical systems. For the latest edition of her Miximum Ca Canny The Sabotage Manuals you cutta da pay we cutta da shob, she invited twenty-one colleagues worldwide to sabotage the manuscript. Her latest book, Arvodet Marginalintäkten (The Fee The Marginal Revenue) are radio plays encircling the language of Economish, and how that language of argumentation affects social distancing, or the distance between our hearts. Börjel has translated Valzhyna Mort's Music for The Dead and Resurrected and Solmaz Sharif's Look into Swedish. As a co-translator, she has translated poetry books from Russian by Maria Stepanova and Galina Rymbu.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781946604057
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse, (01 February 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 321
- Weight
- 291 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 184 x 183 x 26 mm
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