Translated form the English
From the review by George Myers, Jr:
"The geography of Kathryn Rantala’s remarkable book comes into focus quickly. The poems gather into three increasingly ambitious sections —“Exploration & Study,” “Letters North,” and “As if they were a Basket.” Each section rewards attention. Still, the final third feels especially rich. It’s there that the book’s structural intelligence comes fully into view. In “As if they were a Basket,” Rantala wagers that adjacency can carry meaning without narrative scaffolding, that structure itself can generate coherence."
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“Reading [Translated from the English] … takes me beyond language as I have always known it, into a realm—a glimpse of it—on the verge—Of what? I suppose the ineffable.”
—Norman Lock
Excerpt
from Letters North
I was deposited here
by glacier
my ledges
my sweet sound
of nothing
and agree
these are
productive
days
if I move
it will be fast