House Inspections - (Lannan Translations Selection) by Carsten René Nielsen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>The Paris Review</i> has published a dozen poems from this leading Danish poet's surreal, harrowing prose poetry collection.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>These poems do much more than blur the line between illusion and reality: they evoke that vibrant contradiction of dreaming in which the real and unreal exist in perfect simultaneity.--<i>The Georgia Review</i></p> <p><b>Theatre</b></p> <p><i>A man performs whole days from his life as a drama, each day at home in his apartment. He goes to great lengths to be as realistic as possible, walking around the apartment and tending to day-to-day business. Only at night, when he sits by himself in the kitchen, does he peek now and then at the window to glimpse his audience. He won't completely abandon the notion that someone is out there. It's like when you stand on the landing, in front of a closed door, and you can't help thinking that someone is watching through the peephole.</i></p> <p>With a dozen poems previously published in <i>The Paris Review</i>, Carsten René Nielsen is already a familiar name to US poetry readers. These dark prose poems--reminiscent of Charles Simic--map out a uniquely European territory with chilling, cinematic clarity.</p> <p>Award-winning Danish poet <b>Carsten René Nielsen</b> is the author of nine books of poetry, including his US debut <i>The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors</i> (2007). His poems appear in <i>The Paris Review</i>, <i>Agni</i>, <i>Circumference</i>, <i>Mid-American Review</i>, <i>Mississippi Review</i>, and elsewhere. He lives in Aarhus, Denmark.</p> <p><b>David Keplinger</b>'s poetry awards include the Colorado Book Award, T.S. Eliot Prize, an NEA fellowship, and grants from the Danish Arts Council. He directs the MFA program at American University in Washington, DC.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p/>"Nielsen's prose poems take us into a dream world where everyday objects take on new meaning...Some may complain that they've visited this dream world before, in prose poems by Charles Simic, Sabrina Orah Mark, and Christopher Kennedy, to name only a few. The prose poem's affinity for the surreal, however, should be celebrated, as should Nielsen's skill at plumbing the strangeness of the human psyche."--<i>Rain Taxi</i> <p/>"These are personal words, ones that describe mundane experiences while seeking from the same some higher meaning but never forcing or under false lights placing lofty meanings on the everyday... Nielsen, though not the youngest of fellows, often seems older than his years via these poems as there is a strong and constant coat of the colors nostalgia and sometimes irritation in his words as to what his city has become...he has proven once again that he has his own very distinct voice and one that he dedicates to very worthwhile writing on topics he makes come to life and illustrate the beauty and complexity we can find in even the most mundane things."--<i>Gently Read Literature</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Carsten Nielsen: 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, The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors, was published in English by New Issues in 2007. His poetry has been featured in magazines in Italy, Germany, Canada and the United States. Carsten René Nielsen is born 1966 and lives in Aarhus. <p/>David Keplinger: David Keplinger is the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Prayers of Others, which won the 2006 Colorado Book Award. He is the recipient of the T.S. Eliot Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Danish Arts Council. He directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University in Washington, D.C. <p/> <p/>
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