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.
| ISBN: | 9781946604057 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 2024 |
| Author: | Ida Börjel |
| Publisher: | Ugly Duckling Presse |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 321 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Writing systems, alphabets Translation and interpretation |