Action Books Publishes 'My Jewel Box' Translated by Professor Katrine Øgaard Jensen '17

By
Rebecca Pinwei Tseng
March 23, 2022
Book cover for 'My Jewel Box'.

Action Books recently published My Jewel Box, a collection of poems by Ursula Andkjær Olsen translated from the Danish by Adjunct Assistant Professor Katrine Øgaard Jensen '17. The book is now available for purchase.

My Jewel Box marks the final installment of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s trilogy–a “fairy tale of the universe” investigating grief, motherhood, bodies, and the physical and economic inequalities of modern planetary life. The other two books in Olsen's trilogy, Third-Millennium Heart and Outgoing Vessel, were also translated from the Danish by Jensen. My Jewel Box conveys a cosmically human–and non-human–approach to our grief-stricken earth, a place of all times entangled.

Read an excerpt of the collection here.

Katrine Øgaard Jensen is a writer and translator from the Danish. She is a recipient of several fellowships and awards, including the Danish Arts Foundation’s ‘Young Artistic Elite’ Fellowship in 2020 as well as the 2018 National Translation Award in Poetry for her translation of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s book-length poem, Third-Millennium Heart (Broken Dimanche Press/Action Books 2017). Her translation of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s Outgoing Vessel was published by Action Books in March 2021. A founding editor of EuropeNow and a former blog editor of Asymptote and Words Without Borders, she has served as a judge for several international literary awards, including the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and the Best Translated Book Awards.