Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Johannes Goransson. "If Vicente Huidobro met Georges Bataille on a Waste Management(R)truck, the result might be something akin to Johan Jonson's COLLOBERT ORBITAL, the new manifesto of 'the waste-disposal-working-class.' At times soaring across 'aerospatiality,' at others existentially grounded in 'an overheated world factory' of 'all work, all healthcare, all logistics,' Jonson's linguistic propulsions and dynamic formal innovations challenge 'a victorious bourgeois poetry order' to, once again, rearticulate verse experimentation to the politics and poetics of working a day job"--Mark Novak.

Author Hometown: Stockholm SWE



About the author: Johan Jonson (b. 1966) published his first book Som samplingdikter As Sampling Poems) in 1992. After publishing his second collection, Nast sista valdet (The Second to Last Violence), J”nson moved into writing performance works with the performance troop Teatermaskinen, including such pieces as Project FAUST-FUCK, extasy +/- noll and woyzeckmaskinen. At the start of the new millennium he returned to written works with the five-volume project I krigsmaskinen (In the War Machine), Virus and a number of other books. In 2006 he published COLLOBERT ORBITAL, a transmutation of French writer Danielle Collobert's journals. His most recent book, Efter arbetschema (According to Work Schedule), was published this year (2008).