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Norwegian title: Hvis

Tine-Jarmila Sir

What if you where Joe Bainard at a party with Ron Padgett? What if you where David Foster Wallace walking the dogs a wonderful winters morning? What if you where Bodil Malmsten, spending an entire summers day testing grandfathers newly made furniture? Or what if you where a small abused child instead? Far away from what is safe and good. How do you write about that? If (Hvis) is a poetry collection like no other. If I was David Foster WallaceI would say it like thisthat it was like walking upto the net before the tennis match startedand offer to loosenot do any mentionable resistanceas long as you do not usesticks or rocks, your voicesand not kickonly rapethis childin a normal way