About the Author:

Carsten René Nielsen is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Forty-One Animals (2005), which won him critical acclaim throughout his native Denmark. Recent collections include Circles (1998) and Clairobscur (2001). His first book, Mechanic Loves Machinist, was published in 1989, and was awarded the Michael Strunge Prize for Literature. He has won several fellowships from the Danish Council on the Arts. His poetry has been featured in magazines in Italy, Germany, Canada and the United States. Nielsen lives in Aarhus. (website)

About the Translator:

David Keplinger’s third poetry book, The Prayers of Others, was published in 2006. He has been awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Katey Lehman Foundation. His poems appear in Ploughshares, AGNI, Poetry, The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review and many other journals. Keplinger teaches at American University in Washington, D.C.

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