Child Is Not a Knife

Selected Poems of Göran Sonnevi

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

Av Göran Sonnevi, Goran Sonnevi, Rika Lesser

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Goran 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 oandlig [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 "Aby, Oland; 1982" We are here in the ultimate lives of our bodies negations of the ultimate negation We are complete parts of the world We rise up out of infinity like the limestone flats from the sea Like the stars We are denials of infinity One day we shall reach all the way there

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Utgivningsdatum1993-03-14
Mått152 x 235 x 12 mm
Vikt28 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLockert Library of Poetry in Translation
Antal sidor218
FörlagPrinceton University Press
ISBN9780691015439

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Göran Sonnevi has written twelve books of poems and assembled and revised collections of his poems (most of which are in print in Sweden in mass-market paperback editions). Rika Lesser is a poet and has translated numerous works of poetry, including a selection of the poems of Rilke, Rilke: Between Roots (Princeton). For a group of poems from A Child Is Not a Knife, she received the Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award in 1992 and the American Scandinavian Foundation's

AcknowledgmentsGoran Sonnevi: An IntroductionSonnevi: A Translator's Retrospective MontageKoster, 19733Whose life? you asked15the hyacinth17Dyron; 198118Summer has turned now And I go21Seeing your smile23Mourning Cloak25Words have no limits30I said to you33The twilight of spring rain37You say I'm naive38You, who say yes to39Demon colors40For S***, 197143There is life that / will not give up45You sense the light's fragrance46The wound bleeding48A Child Is Not a Knife49Breaking up: that large feeling52in the meadow by the shore57Incalculable: the heart59Death is no more60The narrow shaft61Fagerfjall, Tjorn, 1986; For Pentti62Aby, Oland; 198264what / do I find / then67From the cliff at the foot of Skull Mountain70New Year's 198673The center of unheard-of, of enormous hopes75Burge, Oja; 198979Notes87Swedish Contents and Bibliographical Citations93