Aase Berg
Remainland |
| Aase Berg is a poet, literary critic and translator. She grew up outside Tensta in Stockholm, where she was born in 1967. Her first book, Hos rådjur (With Deer ), was published by Bonnier in 1997. This was followed by Mörk Materia (Dark Matter ), a book-length science-fiction prose poem, in 2000. Her third book, Forsla fett (Transfer Fat ), was nominated for the prestigious Augustpriser for the best poetry book of 2002. In 2005, she published her fourth book, Uppland. Her essays on literature and culture have appeared in BLM, Göteborgs-Posten and 00tal, among other places. She currently resides in Stockholm. |
Author photo © Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin |
From “It’s Not Acceptable to be Fatso”:
“… I hope for poetic expressions that are aggressive, baroque and esoteric; I prefer ridiculous and embarrassing to perfection. On the literary market, which is dominated by the aesthetic and social ideals of the upper middleclass, it is unacceptable to be excessive in any way – one adjective too many and you’re out. There’s a stubborn cliché that the sober, quiet and elegant, the so-called “simple” is categorically more informative than the noisy. The fleshy, screamy and overdone, the vulgar, desperate and pathetic are so taboo in our culture that there must be dog buried in the phenomenon.”*
*In Swedish, “a buried dog” has the same meaning as “a dead rat” in English. |
Some Links to Aase Berg’s writing on the Web:
“In the Guinea Pig Cave,”
“In the Heart of the Guinea Pig Darkness,”
“The Gristle Day”;
“Fox,”
“Mastiff,”
“Shard”;
“Seal Drubbing”
“Harpy”
“We Thread Up Lizards”
“Deer Quake”
“Jam”
“The meaningless underside of lakes,”
“The meaningless underside of bridges” |
|
|
