Anna Hallberg
Anna Hallberg nació en 1975 y vive actualmente en Estocolmo. Empezó a trabajar como crítica literaria en 1999 y publicó su primera colección de poemas Friktion (Fricción), en 2001. Desde entonces ha escrito cuatro libros de poemas: på era platser (en sus marcas, 2004), Mil (Milla, 2008), Colosseum, Kolosseum (Coliseo, Kolosseum, 2010) y as : ka (el cual aparecerá en 2014). Anna Hallberg es miembro del comité editorial de la revista de poesía OEI y ha trabajado también con poesía visual para exhibiciones en Suecia, Noruega y Finlandia.
Anna Hallberg was born in 1975 and currently lives in Stockholm. She started working as a literary critic in 1999 and published her first poetry collection, Friktion (Friction), in 2001. Since then she has written four books of poetry: på era platser (on your marks, 2004), Mil (Mile, 2008), Colosseum, Kolosseum (Colosseum, Kolosseum, 2010) and as : ka (ash : es, which will be released in 2014). Anna Hallberg is a member of the editorial board of the poetry magazine OEI, and has also worked with visual poetry for exhibitions in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
A few words about the books:
Friktion contains seventy four short poems held together in a formalistic system. Every poem has a consonant rich lead-word as it’s title, as well as a digit that tells the reader where in the rising and falling main structure the poem is located. The poems count from one to ten and back (nine, eight, seven etc.) and from one onwards (two, three, four etc.) again, and continues in a wave-motion between one and ten up until the last poem which is called ”one.zero”. The poems lack personal pronouns and work on opening up and exposing the individual word’s inherent movements, soundstages, association clusters and peculiarities.
På era platser is from a conceptual point of view a more free poetry book than the debut. If Friktion investigated the word, one might say that på era platser explores the phrase. The book starts off with a twelve page poem, “kuratorerna” (”the curators”), which presents disparate lines that mark off different kinds of statements: idiomatic expressions, news headlines, proverbs, statements, reflections and such. Stylistically the poems test a number of graphical and poetological modes of expression. The collection ends with a fifty page syllable counting poem, ”Liv” (“Life”), which writes into being an empty floor.
Mil is a book that borrows it’s thoroughly horizontal form from cassette tapes, rosaries, lines, pearl bands, strips of tape, life lines etc. Where the two preceding books have a strong and demarcated spatial focus this work constantly moves on. It is a forward movement which drags with it specified objects, human beings, life stories, environments in an unconditional stream of lost spatial pictures.
Colosseum, Kolosseum consists of five suites that are centered around the ruins of the Colosseum, old asylums, fecal matter and death. The first part is plain lyrical poetry and focuses on excrement and asylums. The second part alliterates the letter ”s” over seventeen pages. The third part consists of lyrical prose and double-projects the antique Colosseum with a swedish mental hospital from the early 20th century. The fourth part is a destabilizing party that tries to blow up the order that has up until then been erected. The fifth part consists of shorter low-keyed sentences which collects and connects to the first suite.
Descargar Friktion (Friction), 2001 en este link.
Descargar på era platser (on your marks), 2004 en este link.
Descargar Mil (Mile), 2008 en este link.
Descargar Colosseum, Kolosseum (2010) en este link.
