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When you write on wet paper, the words dissolve as you write. The letters are absorbed into the paper, and the words may begin to look like different words to the ones you actually wrote. It is an almost impossible task. But what is written remains, blocked somewhere on the pathway between creation and dissolution. The poems in Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger’s Eg skrivi á vátt pappír (‘I Write on Wet Paper’, not translated into English) are rooted in relationships with other peop

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The infinite sea and the individual  The poetry collection Lívfrøðiliga samansetingin í einum dropa av havvatni minnir um blóðið í mínum æðrum (in English: “The Biological Composition of a Drop of Seawater Resembles the Blood in my Veins”) by the Faroese author, publisher, curator, and academic, Kim Simonsen, is a quiet work, written shortly after the passing of the poet’s father. I n the wake of this event, the poetic persona walks around in the landscape of childhood, an u