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, World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors, was published in English by New Issues Press in 2007. His poetry has been featured in magazines in Italy, Germany, Canada, and the U.S. His most recent collection, House Inspections, was published […]
Over by the harbor, on a bench with a view over the harbor basin, sits a girl swimmer. She is wearing a bathing suit and bathing cap, her hips are wide, her breasts are small. Long before the land and the forests, before the valleys and the hills, before paths became roads and settlements towns, […]
Ovre på havnen, på en bænk med udsigt over havnebassinet, sidder der en svømmepige. Hun er iført badedragt og badehætte, hendes hofter er brede, brysterne små. Allerede før landet og skovene, før dalene og bakkerne, før stier blev til veje og bopladser til byer, sad hun her, men dengang var alt dette hav. “Man siger […]
At the photographer’s, you can get a portrait of your likeness after death, but the process is painstaking. A newly engaged couple once proved so hard to satisfy, the photographer had to continue the shoot the following day. Finally, at closing time he’d managed to position them, and the light, the mark of such photography, […]
Hos fotografen kan man få taget et billede, der viser én, som man ser ud efter døden, men nemt er det ikke. Engang var et nyforlovet par så umulige at gøre tilfredse, at han måtte fortsætte fotograferingen den efterfølgende dag. Lige før lukketid havde han ellers endelig fået dem placeret i den rigtige position, og […]