The Biological Composition of a Drop of Seawater Is Reminiscent of the Blood in My Veins (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

A poetry collection about oceanic grief, the tides of time, the currents that connect us all, and the waves that change us.

The biological composition of a drop of seawater is reminiscent of the blood in my veins was written in the wake of the death of Simonsen's father. The narrator of the collection navigates his grief and his conflicted sense of Faroese masculinity by wandering about an unidentified Faroese village. A complex temporal understanding ebbs and flows throughout, consistently oscillating between the linear and the cyclical, between life and death, blood and the sea, between biology and philosophy.

This perspective is groundbreaking in Faroese literature because it does not romanticize the fisherman father's extractive relationship to the sea or glorify the commercial fishing industry upon which the Faroe Islands' vulnerable economy rests. The narrator of the collection is looking for another way forward, another story that speaks to and of his experience so that his existence is not one of deepening exile and trauma. As he grieves what has been lost, he reimagines and rekindles a kinship with all matter that, in the end, helps him find a new way to connect with his dead father, himself, and the world that does not rely on nationalist myths or toxic masculinity.