| Frayed Opus for Springs & Wind Instruments Contributor(s): Gernes, Ulrikka S. (Author), Friesen, Patrick (Translator), Brask, Per (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1771313765 ISBN-13: 9781771313766 Publisher: Brick Books OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - German - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General - Poetry | Canadian |
| Dewey: 831 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.8" W x 8.5" (0.35 lbs) 64 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry. Translated from the Danish by Per Brask and Patrick Friesen. FRAYED OPUS FOR STRINGS & WIND INSTRUMENTS is a collection of poems that zooms in and out of places and states of mind, from a lit bicycle shed in the back yard to a root canal in November, from a typhoon in Hong Kong to instincts astray in various Copenhagen neigborhoods. Elegantly translated by Canadian collaborators Per Brask and Patrick Friesen, these dreamlike poems attempt, with honesty and humour, to fathom what it is to inhabit a specifically unspecific point in life--not to mention in the Universe. &nb sp; & nbsp; &nb sp; & nbsp; &nb sp; & nbsp; R 30;In my pocket I have the photo of the house, I have to stop continually, put the suitcases down, take the photo from my pocket and compare the house in the photo with the houses we pass. In this way seventeen years go by. Praise for the work of Ulrikka S. Gernes ...airy and abstract, like pinching smoke...risky and intriguing. --The Antigonish Review |
Contributor Bio(s): Gernes, Ulrikka S.: - Ulrikka S. Gernes was born in 1965 in Sweden of Danish parents. At the age of twenty-two she moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, already a published and highly acclaimed poet. Her first collection, Natsvaermer (Moth), was published in Denmark in 1984, when she was eighteen years old. Since then she has published an additional ten collections, all of them received gratefully in the Danish press. She is also the author of two books for children, as well as many short stories, songs, and various contributions to literary anthologies, art catalogues, magazines, newspapers and Danish National radio. In 2001 A Sudden Sky: Selected Poems, translated into English by Per Brask and Patrick Friesen, was published by Brick Books. Over the decades, poetry has put her on several flights across the Atlantic ocean to read at festivals in Canada as well as sending her on missions to numerous other locations across the planet. She manages the estate and artistic legacy of her father, the internationally known visual artist Poul Gernes, and lives in Copenhagen, Denmark with her daughter Perle. FRAYED OPUS FOR STRING & WIND INSTRUMENTS is the second translation of Ulrikka's work published by Brick Books (2015).Gernes, Ulrikka: - Ulrikka S. Gernes is the author of eleven collections of poetry and two books for children, as well as many short stories, songs, and various contributions to literary anthologies, art catalogues, magazines and newspapers. Her work has been highly acclaimed in Denmark since the publication of her first collection Natsvaermer (Moth) in 1984 when she was 18. In 2001 A Sudden Sky: Selected Poems, translated into English by Per Brask and Patrick Friesen, was published by Brick Books. |
