Ma

These poems came after a full year in which the poet could not, or would not, write. They try to give form to people who have died, uncertain whether doing so revives them or kills them a second time. The title borrows a Japanese character that can mean a void, a pause or room, a god, time, memory, and also a mother, and the poems open onto a world that keeps spilling outward and changing shape.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

First published

2014 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9789100134945 (original)

9781946604057 (Ugly Duckling Presse, United States)