With a brilliant intro from poet Rachel Zavecz, my interview with Aase Berg is now live at FANZINE!

With a brilliant intro from poet Rachel Zavecz, my interview with Aase Berg is now live at FANZINE! Her new book, HACKERS (trans. by Johannes Göransson) is also available from Black Ocean)

AASE BERG: My view on horses has developed through the years. When I wrote With Deer, it was merely an intellectual image, but later on I started riding and had my own horses and I realized that the practice of communicating with a horse is poetry without words. You have to grow into the horse’s body to be able to ride. It’s like dancing, or sex. But the horse is also a symbol of the oppressed. It’s oppressed in itself—the humans control the horses completely—we control their reproduction, their food, their space. And the horse is always protesting in some ways—destroying the fence, running away, sometimes refusing to do what you ask them to do. But it’s a mild protest. If they wanted, they could easily kill you. It’s a communicative protest, not an aggressive one. That fascinates me.