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Kevätsade: Valikoima ruotsalaista lyriikkaa

Kevätsade: Valikoima ruotsalaista lyriikkaa

Vaara, Elina
Viljanen, Lauri

Paperback

Poetry Anthologies

ISBN10: 9378416365
ISBN13: 9789378416361
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Oct 24 2026
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Finnish
Spring rain falls across centuries of Swedish lyric poetry, carrying voices from the eighteenth century into the young poetry of the early twentieth. Presented in Finnish translation and arranged by poet, this anthology traces a historical continuum without forcing its varied works into a single narrative. Instead, each poem opens a distinct encounter with transience and renewal, shaped by changing forms, periods and perspectives. Natural landscapes meet the intimate spaces of home and memory: seas, forests and fields stand beside family life, urban communities and places marked by war. Love and solitude, beauty and death, loss and hope recur in different registers, while the seasons lend human experience a wider rhythm. Spring returns, rain passes, and ordinary life is viewed against the knowledge that people, places and moments cannot remain unchanged. A broad range of poetic forms gives the collection its distinctive movement. Brief meditative lyrics sit alongside elegies, ballads, mythological subjects and narrative poems, revealing how Swedish poetry approached shared human concerns across generations. The Finnish translations by Elina Vaara and Lauri Viljanen bring these historically varied voices together while preserving the anthology's poet-by-poet structure and its shifts between reflection, story and song. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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