Moestrup, Mette / Jensen, Katrine Øgaard (tr.): To the Most Beautiful

Co•im•Press, Publication Date: October 18, 2024 Translated by: Katrine Øgaard Jensen Publisher Marketing:  At once as supple and sly as it is spirited and smart, To the Most Beautiful is the second collection by the award-winning and renowned Danish poet Mette Moestrup to appear in English, in a tour de force translation by Katrine Øgaard Jensen. This collection of 117 poems takes readers on a thirteen-night journey of rumination, offering thirteen poems for each of the nine muses and taking its title from the ill-fated message that Eris wrote on the Apple of Discord, before dropping that golden bombshell into the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, leading to a vanity-plagued dispute among the goddesses that spawned The Trojan War. In To the Most Beautiful, Moestrup transfigures the infamous apple into Blood apples, honey hexagons, paradise apples, teardrops, orchards, and more, using constraints, ritual-based poetics, and numerical systems that seek to rupture binaries, all while working t