Summer reviewed by Cal Bedient in Lana Turner
"Johannes Göransson has written, in Summer, arguably the best lyrical poems of anger and grief (and a book-length poem at that) since Sylvia Plath tore up the runway of the genre."
Interview in Ligeia Magazine
Johannes and Matt Lee "discuss translation, intertextuality, trauma, and how to combat literary elitism."
Interview in the Millions
"I Don’t Want to Move On: Johannes Göransson and Niina Polari in Conversation."
Podcast Interview at Writing the Rapids
“Lilacs and Rifles”: Interview with Johannes Göransson at the Writing the Rapids Podcast.
Summer reviewed by Jared Joseph in Asymptote
"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 by PJ Lombardo in Heavy Feather Review
“A mesmerizing artwork, a nerve loaded with punishing sensitivity…. Göransson dwells in the ruinous charm that stretches through every blooming thing with vicious candor.”
Summer reviewed in fck yr bookclub
"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."
YouTube Interview for Yale Windham-Campbell Festival
In conversation with Kate Briggs, Sawako Nakayasu, and John Keene.
John Yau, Hyperallergic review of Poetry Against All
"...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
"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."
Interview at the Center for the Art of Translation
“Rotten Flowers and Exploded Ballads: A Conversation Between Helena Boberg and Johannes Göransson.”