Double Life

Double Life

Pedro Carmona-Alvarez

Original title: Dobbeltliv
Publisher: Forlaget H//O//F, 2022
Genre: Poetry
Pages: 80 pages

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Double Life is a collection of unruly poems that celebrate and sing the praises of literature, transformation, and imagination. You’ll find motley shifts of voice and a perforated language, poetic speeches and hidden traces where the poet insists on being free from binding identities, definitions, and demands for stylistic consistency. The book is full of fluid transitions, stubborn memory, history, and inheritance. Commissioned for the 2022 Møllebyen Literature Festival, the book offers an open-ended interpretation of the festival’s theme: “radical hope.”

Pedro Carmona-Alvarez

Pedro Carmona-Alvarez was born in La Serena, Chile, in 1972. At the age of ten, he and his family fled to Argentina, and the family later moved to Norway. He made his debut with a collection of poetry in 1997, and has since published several award-winning books. The Weather Changed, Summer Came and So On was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award in 2017.

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