Peirene Press

IRON LUNG

by Kirstine Reffstrup

translated by Hunter Simpson

‘Reading Iron Lung felt like remembering a past life, at once so foreign and familiar. With her lucid, pulsating sentences, as poetic as they are precise, Kirstine Reffstrup pierces a little hole in history and pulls a thin, but shining thread through it.’ – Jonas Eika, author of After the Sun

‘What if bodies were not told as pathologies or perversions but rather as stories of spiders, rivers, eggs, and laboured breaths? With sensuous sensitivity, Iron Lung imagines the queer twinnings that arise between bodies cast aside by the twentieth century.’ – Selby Wynn Schwartz, author of After Sappho

‘A wonderful book: writing which is so vital and so visual coupled with a story which is strange, psychedelic, precise and filled with melancholy. Virtuosic work.’ – Aidan Cottrell-Boyce, author of The End of Nightwork