Join us on January 14 for a virtual book talk on Katarina Frostenson’s The Space of Time (Songs and Formulae), out now from Threadsuns Press! Translator Brad Harmon and moderator Robin Myers will be present for a virtual talk with Frostenson to discuss the Swedish poet’s lyrical, philosophical and imagistic poetry collection.

Winner of the 2016 Nordic Council Literature Prize, The Space of Time is an unsentimental and smoldering study of the ecological and utopic function of grief. Frostenson seems to speak to the universal orphan lost in the Open, in the landscape, in literature, in bedwarmth, and in lamentation. 

Translated by Bradley Harmon with great attention to its lyrical movement, this is the first English-language book by Frostenson, a leading poet in Sweden since the 1980s. Frostenson’s poetry combines philosophical inquiry (of language, experience, song) with arresting images, interrogation of language with a high lyrical velocity. The “lattice of language” moves and turns with a breathless momentum that lights up the synapses.