The Star by My Head: Poets From Sweden
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- Synopsis
- Published in partnership with the Poetry Foundation, this breathtaking anthology features eight of Sweden&’s most highly regarded poets.From Edith Södergran to Gunnar Ekelöf to Nobel Prize-winning Tomas Tranströmer, Sweden has long been home to a rich and luminous poetic tradition, notable for refreshing openness, striking honesty, and a rare transcendence that often springs from a keen attention to the natural world. In the poems of The Star by My Head, which begin in the early twentieth century and come up to the present day, pinecones cluster out of reach and lilacs attempt their tentative rebirth each year. A bee makes a face like a newborn&’s. A name etched in vapor on a windowpane, and its erasure, brings happiness.With exquisite translations by internationally acclaimed poets and translators Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellerström offered alongside the Swedish originals, The Star by My Head is an essential bilingual volume and the premiere American anthology of its kind.
- Copyright:
- 2013
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781571319036
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781571314611
- Publisher:
- Milkweed Editions
- Date of Addition:
- 12/26/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Milkweed Editions
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Jonas Ellerström
- Edited by:
- Malena Mörling
- Edited by:
- Ilya Kaminsky