Jordan Barger
@norsk.bsky.social
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Translator. Norwegian literature enthusiast. Iowa MFA.
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Since Bluesky is more welcome to links, here’s a link to all of my online publications! Read my translations, essays and poetry here:
linktr.ee/jordanbarger
about 1 year ago
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Backlight is out and the trilogy is all together! Wooo! Thanks to
@catranslation.bsky.social
for putting out these masterpieces.
6 months ago
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Tom Snarsky
6 months ago
mountain poem 2/31: “Holiday 1” by Yahya Hassan, translated by
@norsk.bsky.social
. Yahya Hassan was a marvelous poet I’m excited for more people to read! full text of this and a couple other YH poems:
actionbooks.org/2021/06/thre...
& the interview with YH quoted in ALFTM:
youtu.be/1HE6ZsH8ldU?...
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Marianna Suleymanova
7 months ago
Working with the
@khoreo.bsky.social
team on the production of the audio version of my translation from issue 5.1 (out as a pod soon) has been a dream experience. Talented, refreshingly diverse roster of voice actors, unparalleled attention to detail. Vote for them if you can🖤📚
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Tom Snarsky
8 months ago
Svein Jarvoll, translated by Jordan Barger
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British Centre for Literary Translation
9 months ago
The British Centre for Literary Translation is now part of Bluesky 🎉 We're looking forward to connecting with new and old followers. Help us spread the word and stay tuned for updates!
#BCLT
#Bluesky
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Follow
@circumferencemag.bsky.social
for the best in poetry in translation!
9 months ago
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Marianna Suleymanova
9 months ago
Bloody thrilled to share my translation of Evgenia Nekrasova’s horned tale on the perils of patriarchy. Deep gratitude to
@theoffingmag.bsky.social
for giving this banger a home🖤🩸
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RIP Dag Solstad
10 months ago
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Stagger Lee
10 months ago
15 years he's been gone now. Still think about his music most days...
youtu.be/meDCjtfDk4c?...
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Sparklehorse – It's A Wonderful Life (Official Video)
YouTube video by Sparklehorse (Official)
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My range
10 months ago
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Advice from two of my favorite writers (Hesselholdt + Lutz) for everyone to stop being so specific and stringent
10 months ago
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ours is a poor sort of language that only allows one word at a time
11 months ago
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My least favorite medium (podcast) about my favorite music (Movietone + Flying Saucer Attack + Crescent) Wooo!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Episode #66: Kate Wright and Richard King / Movietone & Planet Records (Bristol, UK)
Podcast Episode · Songs From a Padded Envelope · 01/24/2025 · 1h 14m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/songs-from-a-padded-envelope/id1500404870?i=1000685230153
11 months ago
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Beyond honored to contribute a Yahya Hassan translation to this landmark anthology of Palestinian Poetry. Heaven Looks Like Us, available from
@haymarketbooks.org
in mid May 2025.
11 months ago
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Ruth Donnelly
11 months ago
Some homemade hurdy gurdy action here to brighten a dull Wednesday…
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12 months ago
Fishing for the Little Pike, by Juhani Karila, translated by yours truly, is a Dublin Literary Award Longlist finalist. : ) God bless the librarians.
#juhanikarila
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Just played a French scrabble tournament in Bordeaux. Went 2-3, very happy. But omg am I tired. One of the harder things I’ve ever done with my languages
12 months ago
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Very excited about finding three Vesaas books in French
12 months ago
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Translation Meme
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Interesting article about the intersection of translation, poetry, disability.
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now
@uiiwp.bsky.social
has joined Bluesky! Without them, I can’t imagine how I’d find the opportunity to work on translations from Finnish. Here, Reetta Pekkanen in Circumference.
circumferencemag.com/emptiness-sp...
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emptiness, spreading all afternoon | Circumference
Five poems by Reetta Pekkanen, translated from Finnish by Jordan Barger
https://circumferencemag.com/emptiness-spreading-all-afternoon/
12 months ago
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When I learn there’s another treat in France named pastis and it’s nothing like liquid pastis, I say put it in my hand
about 1 year ago
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Saw some Peder Balke’s tucked deep within the Louvre today. King Louis-Philippe commissioned these cus he missed northern Norway
about 1 year ago
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icy enclosures of flora in Iowa city
about 1 year ago
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Since Bluesky is more welcome to links, here’s a link to all of my online publications! Read my translations, essays and poetry here:
linktr.ee/jordanbarger
about 1 year ago
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Alina Stefanescu
about 1 year ago
Today is World AIDS Day. Lacking space to fully describe how queer theory and literature shaped (and shapes) my mind, I'm sharing this essay on Robert Gluck's magnificent ABOUT ED, published in
@clereviewbooks.bsky.social
earlier this year. đź–¤
www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/robe...
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The Telling Makes It True: On Robert Glück’s “About Ed” — Cleveland Review of Books
The problem of love is eternity.
https://www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/robert-gluck-about-ed
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Mikrobloggingen fortsetter
about 1 year ago
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It’s my micro-blog and I’ll show you the bookmarks in my Einar Haugen’s Norwegian English Dictionary if I want!
about 1 year ago
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I am once again polishing up my nautical and fishery terminology for Norwegian translation purposes
about 1 year ago
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Brad
about 1 year ago
The first book of poetry I translated (which I began in 2016) is now out in the world! THE SPACE OF TIME by Katarina Frostenson Translated from Swedish With Translator's Note and Afterword by Carin Franzén Published by Threadsuns Press
threadsunspress.com/product/the-...
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If you record a 17 minute song about a tree I WILL listen
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about 1 year ago
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I like when a cookie tastes like a bunch of other cookies cus it’s been hanging out with a bunch of other cookies. I imagine I taste something like that
about 1 year ago
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@bethmix.bsky.social
sup Beth?
about 1 year ago
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I’ve read 5+ books of these five writers Banana Yoshimoto Tor Ulven Scott McClanahan Kathy Acker Natsume Soseki
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about 1 year ago
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Now that I’ve been out of the luxury hotel game for 5+ years I am ready to confess that I have taken a luxurious bath in every single hotel I’ve worked in
about 1 year ago
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This is one of the hardest things I’ve ever translated and probably ever will. One if Tor Ulven’s best via
@greggerkesocrates.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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My favorite part of driving across the country is trying to fill my water bottle amdist the cornucopia of gas-station soda fountain/milkshake/coffee/slurpee machines and I’m just looking for a tiny button that says WATER
about 1 year ago
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I am more popular than
@carystough.bsky.social
on Bluesky dot com
about 1 year ago
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Ok back on here cus everybody else is back on here, hi everybody!
about 1 year ago
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Interested in starting two tow truck companies. One called Angel Towing that only does benevolent towing only hiring mega-sweeties. The other called Devil Towing they only does evil towing only hiring tattooed bada**es.
about 2 years ago
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Turnips are my vibe
about 2 years ago
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I am simply a translator of Norwegian literature with many many book ideas, with open arms for publishers looking to capitalize on Jon Fosse’s Nobel Prize win.
about 2 years ago
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The Shoutflower - order Issue 4 now!
over 2 years ago
Issue 4 reading was a hit! Hooray! Thanks to our readers Samantha Pious, Heather Houde, Myene Yanu and John Pinto! 🖤🖤🖤🖤
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The Shoutflower - order Issue 4 now!
over 2 years ago
Hello new followers!! We love you!! You can order a bundle including Shoutflower 3 + 4 here:
www.theshoutflower.com/order
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SHOP — The Shoutflower
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The Shoutflower - order Issue 4 now!
over 2 years ago
Envelopes are stuffed! The Shoutflower Issue Four is here! Behold!
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@nonsuchbook.bsky.social
print junkie? May I point your attention to
@theshoutflower.bsky.social
?
over 2 years ago
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Translation! That I did! Of Tor Ulven! Published!
socratesonthebeach.com/tor-ulven
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Tor Ulven’s surreal “Gold, Winter,” an uncanny description of a place that to leads to ghostly...
https://socratesonthebeach.com/tor-ulven
over 2 years ago
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Something I don’t get enough credit for is how good I am at eating a salad etc and maintaining its essential mixture of ingredients until the very last bite.
over 2 years ago
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my favorite part of my days is shuffling my possessions from one hand to the other, from one pocket to the other, from one bag to the other
over 2 years ago
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The Shoutflower - order Issue 4 now!
over 2 years ago
The Shoutflower lives! Issue Four is nigh so you should order yours now! If you are new to us, we are for fans of: Artaud, Leonora Carrington, Odilon Redon, Anna Kavan, Tsepenaug, Lorca, etc. etc. đź–¤
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