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The Star by My Head: Poets from Sweden

The Star by My Head: Poets from Sweden

Mörling, Malena
Mörling, Malena
Ellerström, Jonas

Paperback

Series: Poets in the World

Fiction AnthologiesPoetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 157131461X
ISBN13: 9781571314611
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Jan 14 2014
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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.

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