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"The Paris Review"has published a dozen poems from this leading Danish poet's surreal, harrowing prose poetry collection.

About the author

Carsten Nielsen: Danish poet Carsten René Nielsen is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Enogfyrre dyr (2005) and Husundersøgelser (2008). His selected prose poems, The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors, was published in English by New Issues in 2007. His poetry has been featured in magazines in Italy, Germany, Canada and the United States. Carsten René Nielsen is born 1966 and lives in Aarhus.

David Keplinger: David Keplinger is the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Prayers of Others, which won the 2006 Colorado Book Award. He is the recipient of the T.S. Eliot Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Danish Arts Council. He directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University in Washington, D.C.

Product details

• Authors: Carsten Ren Nielsen, Carsten Rene Nielsen, Carsten René Nielsen
• Assisted by: David Keplinger (Translation)
• Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2011
• EAN: 9781934414569
• ISBN: 978-1-934414-56-9
• No. of pages: 92
• Weight: 170 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Series: Lannan Translation Selections; Lannan Translations Selection Series; Lannan Translations Selection; Lannan Translation Selections
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other Germanic linguistics / literary studies