About Carsten René Nielsen
Carsten René Nielsen is a Danish poet and the author of twelve books of poetry and one book of flash fiction. Three books have been published in the United States: 'The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors' (selected prose poems, 2007), 'House Inspections' (prose poems, 2011) and 'Forty-One Objects' (prose poems, 2019), all translated by the American poet David Keplinger. In the United States his poems have been featured in several magazines, among them 'The Paris Review', 'Circumference', 'Agni', 'Two Lines' and 'Copper Nickel'. His selected prose poems, The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors, was published in English by New Issues Poetry and Prose in 2007. His poetry has been featured in magazines in Italy, Germany, Canada, and the United States. Carsten René Nielsen was born in 1966 and lives in Aarhus.Nielsen employs many of the same surreal techniques as Russell Edson, but maintains a more objective tone, and typically leaves the reader with a sense of awe […] House Inspections offers tantalizing mysteries for a world all too often gnawing on its own cynicism.
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