A Child Is Not a Knife: Selected Poems of Göran Sonnevi (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #41)
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- Synopsis
- Göran Sonnevi is one of Sweden's most celebrated, respected, and prolific poets. For this first book-length selection of Sonnevi to appear in English, Rika Lesser has chosen works written between 1971 and 1989--although most of the poems come from the last decade and from Sonnevi's last three books, which form part of the single oändlig [unending/infinite/interminable] poem that he continues to write from book to book. Of Lesser's introduction to the work, Richard Howard writes, "Lesser's wonderful prose texts at the outset provide not only an ingress into complex and baffling matter but one of the most determined statements of the translator's text since Walter Benjamin."From "Åby, Öland; 1982"We are here in the ultimate lives of our bodiesnegations of the ultimate negationWe are complete parts of the worldWe rise up out of infinitylike the limestone flats from the sea Like the starsWe are denials of infinityOne day we shall reach all the way there
- Copyright:
- 1993
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 218 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780691257754
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780691069838, 9780691015439, 9780691069838, 9780691015439
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/05/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Göran Sonnevi
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.