{"product_id":"9780984475285","title":"Dark Matter","description":"\u003cbr\u003ePoetry. Translated from the Swedish by Johannes Göransson. Berg's hallucinatory, post-cataclysmic epic takes place in an unremitting future-past. The bodies mutate and hybridize. They are erotic and artificial, art and adrenaline. Available for the first time in English as a complete collection, the poems of this contemporary Swedish classic contaminate as they become contaminated—drawing on and altering source texts that range from \u003cem\u003eThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u003c\/em\u003e to string theory. Calling on fables, science, the pastoral, and the body, DARK MATTER aggravates their perception while exhausting poetry down to its nerve: \"a faint spasm of cheers before this, the nervous system's last chance to communicate with the dying I.\" The result: a monstrous zone of linguistic and bodily interpenetration, cell death, and radiant permutations.\u003cp\u003e\"Extraordinary and urgent, a coded warning smuggled out of dark.\"—China Miéville\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Aase Berg's poetry is discomforting because it lacks boundaries.... When I read her I notice how my consciousness tries to separate, divide up and make sense of her almost hallucinatory images, but they always glide back together. I get nauseated and almost seasick from her texts.\"—Åsa Beckman\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Ocean","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010103296240,"sku":"9780984475285","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780984475285_p0.jpg?v=1769861525","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780984475285","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}