MA by Ida Börjel, translated by Jennifer Hayashida David Calcutt She is a shrewd observer

She is a shrewd observer of times and trends: the Afghan coat

excrements of authors

and a determination to find significance in fleeting objects and fragments

that changes perspective with each fresh look

the inevitable tensions between us and our environment and the ways that human achievement is subject to time are further explored in new and startling situations as when in a poem about heaven

MA by Ida Börjel, translated by Jennifer Hayashida David Calcutt She is a shrewd observerMA, Ida Brjels award winning abecedarian, is a maelstrom of voices cast in the underwater shadows and nuclear light of the Anthropocene. A refraction of Inger Christensens seminal Alphabet, published in 1981, MA speaks a furious incantation in the past tense, a grammar of loss, from the vantage point of a disintegrating here and now. Appearing for the first time in English in Jennifer Hayashidas luminous translation, MA is less a curative than a