Nerve Impulses on the High-Voltage Power Line - Couverture souple

Magnúsdóttir, Arndís

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1959195034 ISBN 13 : 9781959195030

Editeur : Saturnalia Books, 2026

Synopsis

With the precision of a scientist-- part paleontologist, part neurologist, part musicologist-- Arndí s Ló a Magnsú dó ttir explores language as adaptation for survival and what it means to acquire language and to lose it. In the space between words, the electric impulses that crackle between neurons produce alternative methods of communication, expression, and of navigating the modern world. The poems in Nerve Impulses on the High-Voltage Power Line hum and fizz, asking us to forget our preconceptions of what language is for, to let sound build inside the body and flow outward, and to rediscover the ways we move through the world. Words, as Arndí s writes, " are not / for fulfilling basic needs / ... but for setting fire."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

ARNDÍ S LÓ A MAGNÚ SDÓ TTIR is a writer and translator from ReykjavÍ k. She holds a BA in French and Literature, as well as an MA in Translation Studies, from the University of Iceland. She has published two books of poetry, Taugaboð á há spennulÍ nu and Skurn, as well as translations from French into Icelandic. Nerve Impulses on the High-Voltage Power Line was published in Iceland in 2020 by Una Ú tgá fuhÚ s to widespread acclaim. For the work, MagnÚ sdÓ ttir received the Icelandic Literature Center's Grassroots Grant and was nominated for the MaÍ stjarna Poetry Prize for poetry book of the year. RACHEL BRITTON is a writer and translator from New York, based in Iceland. She holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from the State University of New York at Geneseo and an MA in Translation Studies from the University of Iceland. She has received support from the Fulbright Commission, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, the á rni MagnÚ sson Institute for Icelandic Studies, and the Icelandic Literature Center. Her translation of Brynja Hjá lmsdÓ ttir's A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder was published in 2024 by Circumference Books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Saturnalia Books
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1959195034
• ISBN 13: 9781959195030
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible