Review (PDF) The Star By My Head: Poets From Sweden (Poets In The World)
Published in partnership with the Poetry Foundation, The Star By My Head is a breathtaking anthology of poems featuring eight of Sweden's most highly regarded poets, including Nobel Prize winner Tomas Tranströmer.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 seems to spring from a keen attention to the natural world. With poems that span from the beginnings of Modernism to present day, The Star By My Head: Eight Swedish Poets is an essential bilingual volume that offers stark, exquisite translations by internationally acclaimed poets and translators Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellerström. Published in partnership with the Poetry Foundation, The Star By My Head is the premiere American anthology of 20th- and 21st-century Swedish poetry in English translation.
Series: Poets in the World
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Milkweed Editions; Bilingual edition edition (January 14, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 157131461X
ISBN-13: 978-1571314611
Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Please read this anthology! I hadn't encountered any of the poets in this anthology except for Tomas Transtromer before reading the collection. But the other poets, a diverse group, are equally splendid. I wish that there were more translations of these fantastic poets.
Terrific translations of great Scandinavian poetry. There are selections by Tomas Transtromer (winner of the Nobel Prize for literature which he most certainly deserved) and other writers of similar caliber, such as Bruno Oijer. If you're not familiar with the work coming out of Sweden and Finland, you're about to discover something wonderful.
As a writer I love discovering new and different poets. There is a lot here to absorb, admire and carry away.
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