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PHENOMENOLOGY 1.1
TEXT TO ASCONA
TEXT TO MONTE VERITÀ




a mountain
can be truth
an eye
can be reincarnated vision
inherited through generations
body can be text
metabolism mixed with consciousness
can be
sentient




All texts have a premeditated will to come into being. Their own formula. Their own wet life. I watch a documentary about the radical youths at Monte Verità. The voiceover says that Carl Gustav Jung in the preface to a book thanked Otto Gross for their collaboration. In later editions, he deleted those lines of acknowledgement — maybe because Gross was declared mentally ill? This was, strictly speaking, a falsification of history, the voiceover says. F a l s i f i c a t i o n  o f  h i s t o r y. The phrase is a gut punch — I am utterly terrified. I write: Poetry is like that / an unreliable written record / lines changed deleted / chronology extended into the forest.









PHENOMENOLOGY 1.9/TEXT TO TEEN YEARS AND ELASTIC
PHENOMENOLOGY 1.9 / TEXT TO TEEN YEARS AND ELASTIC
PHPHENOMENOLOGY 1.11 / TEXT TO NAME
She Who Writes is Another
She Who Writes is Another
Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger published the poem recording Mítt navn við hondskrift (‘My Name in Handwriting’) in 2014, and her first poetry collection, Hvít sól (‘White Sun) in 2015. She holds an MA in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen and teaches creative writing at the University of the Faroe Islands. The poems featured here are from her second collection Eg skrivi á vátt pappír (I Write On Wet Paper), which received the 2020 Faroese Literature Prize and was nominated for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize.

Brad Harmon is a writer, translator, and scholar of Nordic and German literature, film, and philosophy. His forthcoming translations include Katarina Frostenson’s The Space of Time (Threadsuns Press, October 2024) and Birgitta Trotzig’s A Landscape (Sublunary Editions, November 2024). He currently lives in Stockholm. bradharmon.me