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"Smart, impish, and spare, in line with Aage Brandt unearths the actual within the metaphysical, and the fizz within the physiological."—Joanna Trzeciak

A cognitive scientist by way of exchange, in line with Aage Brandt's poems resemble little puzzle boxes—all really brief with traces of just about exact size. yet inside this doubtless inflexible constitution, he explores an enormous diversity of themes, from dying and verbal exchange to catastrophes, economics, intimacy, goals, and cats. right now philosophical and playful, those poems stimulate the brain and also are disarmingly human.

if I have been a suicide bomber, by means of profession,
so to talk, i'd pick out a deserted
place, climb up on a massive boulder, focus
my brain intensely at the world's most
insane, silly, malodorous, and in every
respect repulsive principles, evoke and display
them, scrutinize their positive aspects very precisely
before my internal eye and ear, and then,
when all eventually was once completely clear,
I might turn on the detonator in my belt
                    (goodbye, ideas)

In addition to his poetry, Per Aage Brandt has released a number of books at the matters of semiotics, linguistics, tradition, and tune. He has additionally translated Molière and the Marquis de Sade, between others, and has had a few of his translations set to tune in Frederik Magle's Cantabile.

Thom Satterlee got his MFA in Literary Translation from the collage of Arkansas, and has released prior collections of Danish poetry in translation. He has bought fellowships from the nationwide Endowment for the humanities and PEN the United States, and gained the interpretation Prize from the American-Scandinavian Foundation.