Tarpaulin Sky Press, paperback
Publication Date: September 1st, 2022
Publisher Marketing: ... inside language treacherous lilac / language syrener made for girls / like me for me the lilacs bloom / like little fingerprints hundreds / of bloody little finger prints I can’t hear / you I’m listening to the radio my wife / is feeding me pomegranate seeds / she’s feeding me with bloody fingers / it’s summer it’s summer I can’t / hear you det är sommar
Johannes Göransson is the author of four books with Tarpaulin Sky Press—ENTRANCE TO A COLONIAL PAGEANT IN WHICH WE ALL BEGIN TO INTICATE (2011), HAUTE SURVEILLANCE (2013), THE SUGAR BOOK (2015), and POETRY AGAINST ALL (2020)—in addition to three previous collections of poems: A New Quarantine Will Take My Place, Dear Ra, and TRANSGRESSIVE CIRCULATION (Noemi Press, 2018). He has also translated several books, including Aase Berg's HACKERS (Black Ocean, 2017), Dark Matter, Transfer Fat, and With Deer as well as Ideals Clearance by Henry Parland and Collobert Orbital by Johan Jönson.