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ART, LITERATURE, TRANSLATION: DEFORMATION, VIOLENCE, ATROCITY KITSCH

Summer reviewed by Jared Joseph in Asymptote

February 2nd, 2023|

"As a poetic embodiment of an injunction to embrace a more inclusive, more inflationary art, Summer is a book whose multilingual form and (non)translative dynamic haunt “the Western preferment of the ‘spirit’ over the ‘body,’” and thereby the nationalistic and xenophobic ideologies undergirding traditional Western poetry."

Summer reviewed in fck yr bookclub

February 2nd, 2023|

"Written into and through the death of his infant daughter from a rare lung condition, Göransson’s elegy/revenge fantasy (to paraphrase his description of the book) captivated me like few collections I’ve read in the past year."

John Yau, Hyperallergic review of Poetry Against All

February 8th, 2021|

"...the most recent genre-bending book from a writer who detonates the lanes that in which mainstream writing is content to stay, from the predictable frisson caused by coolly deadpan conceptual poetry to the packaged emotional uplift of what Ron Silliman called the 'School of Quietude.'.. This book of 45 short prose entries may not be poetry in either the conventional or avant-garde sense, but it is poetry nevertheless."

Poetry Against All reviewed by Ryan Bollenbach at Big Other

February 8th, 2021|

"I was drawn by the breadth of Goransson’s discussions of film, music, and writing, and the aesthetics of pornography, debasement, kitsch, moralism, and nostalgia. He emphasizes an organic and visceral reading and writing practice in line with Steven Shaviro’s film criticism in The Cinematic Body—a text Göransson mentions multiple times in Poetry Against All—of embracing a masochistic relationship to art by allowing oneself to be ravished by it."

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