“What constitutes a life-saving act? Are humans the only critical animal? Some poetry has a way of reconfiguring questions that feel perennial, and What It Means When You Dreams is one of those recalibrating encounters. Caustic, wistful, unnerving, gorgeous – are these records of dreams or a partiture for dissecting the unconscious? Bjerke Torset’s poems are not “arbitrary” as most dreams – and words – are, but read as carefully planted pipe bombs of sound and image. They find craft in the spontaneous, in the mysterious and the inexplicable. How do you feel in the morning? Yes, rested – and in awe of Bjerke Torset’s sharp, sensual language, that turns seemingly chance events into code.”
Nadia de Vries

“An encyclopedia of dreams just about 30 pages long is incomplete.
The title is misleading, since each entry replaces information with poetry,
and the book is funny in the same way Borges's Chinese encyclopedia forces us to laugh:
there is a violence here.
(I don’t know if this can be used. Does it sound ok?
I’d like to say something about the feeling I got reading; the joy.)”
Hans Petter Blad

A poetry chapbook published by AFV Press.
36 pages.
A5 format.
Limited ed. of 72
Design by Håkon Pagander.

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