Katrine gaard Jensen: Ancient Algorithms [2025] paperback

In Ancient Algorithms, Katrine Ogaard Jensen mistranslates, rewrites, and remixes her award-winning translations of Danish Ursula Andkjaer Olsen's poetry based on a series of self-imposed rules and rituals in collaboration with poets Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, CAConrad, Baba Badji, Paul Cunningham, and Ursula Andkjaer Olsen herself. Envisioned as a shared debut, this collection of collaborative poems is equal parts exercise and exorcism, a haunting of literary influences that repositions translation as the very act of writing-exploring what it means for something to be an original, a translation, a poem.