Review

''The Field wants to speak, to pretend to identity, play at agency. But what does The Field have to say? Oh, nothing much. Turns out to have the same complaints and concerns as the rest of us. Here The Field is at once an emergent phenomenon, the expression of contemporary ordinariness, and also an oddly affectless zone of banalities. The irony and wit of the flat statements shift the tone from existential to playful, wry, droll, and quirkily complacent even with all its self-reflections and unease.'' --Johanna Drucker

About the Author

Martin Glaz Serup was born in 1978 and has published six children's books, most recently an illustrated story entitled When Granddad Was a Postman (2010), two chapbook-essays, as well as five earlier collections of poetry; his most recent, the long poem The Traffic Is Unreal (2007), was also published in Finland (2010). Serup is the former founding editor of the Nordic web- magazine for literary criticism Litlive and the literary journal Apparatur and managing editor of the poetry magazine Hvedekorn. He has been teaching creative writing at The University of Southern Denmark and at the writer's school for children's literature at The University of Aarhus and is now a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen. In 2006 Serup received the Michael Strunge Prize for poetry and in 2008 he received a Gold medal from The University of Copenhagen for his dissertation of Poetry and Relational Aesthetics.