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Book · 2002
Transfer Fat
Forsla fettOpening an acclaimed poetic trilogy on maternal biology, this visceral Swedish collection examines pregnancy, mammalian flesh, gravity, and vulnerability through radical, biomechanical lyricism.
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Reading Berg's poetry felt as if someone kept wispering a lullaby right into my ear, a whale song-cry that melts into soft wax-fat and slowly inavades the body. Experimental, somatic, contagious, unique. Loved it.
Zeneida on Goodreads It's hard to know how to assess poetry in translation, but the result here reads like a series of rituals to bring earth and sky and sea together again.
Carrie Laben on Goodreads you need to read it more than once. sound driven words informed by animals and the cosmos. carved by rather. carved sharp but with soft feelings of fatty human need.
Carrie Lorig on Goodreads Wow. Another beautiful hit from the Berg / Göransson team. Transfer Fat is slick with new words, a 'deformation zone' as it is dubbed by Berg, where language is fluid and malleable, ever-(de)evolving.
J.A. on Goodreads To make this perspective feel visceral, feel real, Berg mashes together words from animal/ biological and medical/technological vocabularies.
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