Wild earth rolling forwards in burning, cutting spaces,happy when the air whips your cheek,happy when speed revolves around you.The planets only want the speed of their orbit.The beaches of the All blink like question marks.Hastier, quicker, more and more merciless, […]
I primarily translate poetry, and primarily from the languages: Danish, Swedish and German – into English.
I originally started translating poetry in order to make the works of Gustaf Munch-Petersen available in English – both so that I could share it with friends (and later, by extension, with the world at large), and as a sort of tribute. After translating his entire oeuvre, I went ahead with translating Edith Södergran in the same manner.
My other translations are more sporadic, and count poems that are meaningful to me – intended to stand on their own as they are.
I try my hardest to maintain the content of the poems without sacrifizing rhyme and meter – but if small alterations of the former are necessary in order to get the latter to work, I may choose to do so. I am, after all, a poet before I am a translator.