And When the Light Comes It Will Be So Fantastic (Paperback)

Kristin Berget

ISBN 10: 0810148463 / ISBN 13: 9780810148468

Published by Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 2025

Paperback. A new and singular translation of an award-winning author and poet Norwegian poet Kristin Bergets 2017 Brage Prizenominated poetry collection and when the light comes it will be so fantastic weaves together themes of ecological and linguistic loss, memory and deep time, and motherhood and grief. Bergets poetics point to landscapes used as sites of extraction, where exhausted phosphorus, starving clay layers, and forest machines are encountered. The poems in this collection traverse forests, deserts, and seastheir poetic matter separated by fields of caesuras, visual absences suggestive of Earths ongoing extinctions. As jurors of the Brage Prize commented, within these pages is a universe where humans can seldom be separated from one another or from the nature they live in and among. Bergets first book translated into English is an innovative exploration of the climate crises we are living with today and the complex emotions that ebb and flow along with it. A stirring lyrical encounter of our universe--both as it was and as it will be--and when the light comes it will be so fantastic: poems moves across landscapes of trees, seas, and deserts, encompassing beauty and loss in their entangled forms. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780810148468

Synopsis:

A new and singular translation of an award-winning author and poet
 
Norwegian poet Kristin Berget’s 2017 Brage Prize–nominated poetry collection and when the light comes it will be so fantastic weaves together themes of ecological and linguistic loss, memory and deep time, and motherhood and grief. Berget’s poetics point to landscapes used as sites of extraction, where exhausted phosphorus, starving clay layers, and forest machines are encountered. The poems in this collection traverse forests, deserts, and seas—their poetic matter separated by fields of caesuras, visual absences suggestive of Earth’s ongoing extinctions. As jurors of the Brage Prize commented, within these pages is a universe where humans can seldom be separated from one another or from the nature they live in and among. Berget’s first book translated into English is an innovative exploration of the climate crises we are living with today and the complex emotions that ebb and flow along with it.

About the Author: Kristin Berget made her poetry debut in 2007 with loosing louise. The author of seven poetry collections in Norwegian, as well as the novel Sonja Sacre CŒur, she has been nominated for numerous literary awards, including the Brage Prize in 2017.
 
Kathleen Maris Paltrineri is a poet-translator from Iowa and the recipient of a 2021–22 Fulbright fellowship to Norway for translation research. For her own poetry, Paltrineri has received scholarships and residencies from USF Verftet, Arctic Circle Residency, and more. Paltrineri’s poems have recently appeared in Bone Bouquet, Bennington Review, CALYX, and jubilat.

Bibliographic Details

Title: And When the Light Comes It Will Be So ...
Publisher: Northwestern University Press, Evanston
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new