Aase Berg's Transfer Fat (Forsla fett), nominated in 2002 for Sweden's prestigious Augustpriset for the best poetry book, is a haunting amalgamation of languages and elements- of science, of pregnancy, of whales, of the naturally and unnaturally grotesque- that births things unforeseen and intimately alien. Johannes Goransson's translation captures the seething instability of Berg's bizarre compound nouns and linguistic contortions. "The super-electron microscopeBerg has used in her research shows the world's smallest particles- the vibrations of strings (belly buttons, violin strings, super strings)- announcing that matter is music and music is language and language is matter. As in the singularity of a black hole, the reader will find that time and space have become one, and that there are words in all directions."- Daniel Sjolin