Johannes Göransson

Johannes Göransson

Johannes Göransson is the author of nine books of poetry and criticism, most recently Summer (2022), and is the translator of several books of poetry, including works by Aase Berg, Ann Jäderlund, Helena Boberg and Kim Yideum. His poems, translations and critical writings have appeared in a wide array of journals in the US and broad, including Fence, Lana Turner, Spoon River Review, Modern Poetry in Translation (UK), Kritiker (Denmark) and Lyrikvännen (Sweden). His is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Notre Dame and, together with Joyelle McSweeney, edits Action Books.

Johannes Göransson is the author of nine books of poetry and criticism, most recently Summer (2022), and is the translator of several books of poetry, including works by Aase Berg, Ann Jäderlund, Helena Boberg and Kim Yideum. His poems, translations and critical writings have appeared in a wide array of journals in the US and broad, including Fence, Lana Turner, Spoon River Review, Modern Poetry in Translation (UK), Kritiker (Denmark) and Lyrikvännen (Sweden). His is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Notre Dame and, together with Joyelle McSweeney, edits Action Books.

TRANSLATION

The Angelgreen Sacrament
Eva Kristina Olsson

Translated by Johannes Göransson

Black Square Editions, 2021

Paperback. 63 pages.
ISBN 978-1-73632-484-4

TRANSLATION

The Angelgreen Sacrament
Eva Kristina Olsson

Translated by Johannes Göransson

Black Square Editions, 2021

Paperback. 63 pages.
ISBN 978-1-73632-484-4

“I’m interested in art as violence, art as a haunting, as a spirit photograph, as what Aase Berg calls a ‘deformation zone’ or what Joyelle [McSweeney] has called ‘necropastoral’…. Art that is both Art and a contagion in the world. By not fully accounting for these figures, what I want them to be is this unstable matter. I want it all to be kind of shitty, you know.”

“A feverish and explicit set of images and ideas revolving around power, fetish, porn, media, violence, translation, punishment, performance, and aesthetics…. Kind of like a novelization of a movie about the production of a play based on Abu Ghraib, though with way more starlets and cocaine and semen….” (Blake Butler, VICE)

“I’m interested in art as violence, art as a haunting, as a spirit photograph, as what Aase Berg calls a ‘deformation zone’ or what Joyelle [McSweeney] has called ‘necropastoral’…. Art that is both Art and a contagion in the world. By not fully accounting for these figures, what I want them to be is this unstable matter. I want it all to be kind of shitty, you know.”

“A feverish and explicit set of images and ideas revolving around power, fetish, porn, media, violence, translation, punishment, performance, and aesthetics…. Kind of like a novelization of a movie about the production of a play based on Abu Ghraib, though with way more starlets and cocaine and semen….” (Blake Butler, VICE)