If I were a suicide bomber & other verses
By: Per Aage Brandt ; translated from the Danish by Thom Satterlee
Contributors: Satterlee, Thom, translator
Edition: First edition.
Series: Open letter international poetry series; Open Letter international poetry series
Publisher: Open Letter
Published: 2017
Language: dan; eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781940953649
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Danish poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: "A cognitive scientist by trade, Per Aage Brandt's poems resemble little puzzle boxes-all quite short with lines of almost identical length. But within this seemingly rigid structure, he explores a vast range of topics, from death and communication to catastrophes, economics, intimacy, dreams, and cats. At once philosophical and playful, these poems stimulate the mind and are also disarmingly human. if I were a suicide bomber, by profession, so to speak, I would choose a deserted place, climb up on a big boulder, focus my mind intensely on the world's most insane, stupid, malodorous, and in every respect repulsive ideas, evoke and display them, scrutinize their features very precisely before my inner eye and ear, and then, when all finally was totally clear, I would activate the detonator in my belt (goodbye, ideas) In addition to his poetry, Per Aage Brandt has published a large number of books on the subjects of semiotics, linguistics, culture, and music. He has also translated Moliere and the Marquis de Sade, among others, and has had some of his translations set to music in Frederik Magle's Cantabile. Thom Satterlee received his MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Arkansas, and has published two previous collections of Danish poetry in translation. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN America, and won the Translation Prize from the American-Scandinavian Foundation"--
Notes: Parallel text in Danish and English.