Poetry. Fiction. In this indeterminate text comprised of letters, resembling both fiction and poetry but not wholly comfortable in either category, each sentence is like being stabbed by a beautiful murderer, each new entry like crossing a border into another language. "As intimate as it is expansive, this hybrid prose-poem-novel trips from razor-blade symphonies, to the history of stares, from landlord snitches to basement laments, leading readers down existential corridors that blaze with the dark humor of guilt, of loneliness, and of wishes for vengeance that speak eloquently of what we can find at the core of humanity"--Steve Tomasula. Goransson was born and raised in Skane, Sweden, but has lived in the US for many years. He is co-editor of Action Books and has translated the work of Aase Berg, Henry Parland, Ann Jaderlund and other Swedish and Finland Swedish poets.

Author City: South Bend, IN USA

Johannes Göransson was born and raised in Skåne, Sweden, but has lived in the US for many years. He co-edits Action Books with Joyelle McSweeney and co-edits the online journal Action, Yes with John Dermot Woods. Göransson has translated the work of Aase Berg, Henry Parland, Ann Jaderlund, Johan Jönson and other Swedish and Finland Swedish poets. He is the author of ENTRANCE TO A COLONIAL PAGEANT IN WHICH WE ALL BEGIN TO INTRICATE (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2011), DEAR RA (A STORY IN FLINCHES) (Starcherone Books, 2008), PILOT (JOHANN THE CAROUSEL HORSE) (Fairy Tale Review Press, 2008), and A NEW QUARANTINE WILL TAKE MY PLACE (Apostrophe Books, 2007). He teaches at the University of Notre Dame.

Reviews and Other Links
author blog
Katie Toussaint @ Verse
Johannes Göransson interviewed by SJ Fowler @ 3:AM Magazine