Mozart's Third Brain

One of the great poetic masterpieces of the past century, exquisitely translated from the Swedish. Winner of the 2006 Nordic Councils Literature Prize, Swedish writer Gran Sonnevi is undoubtedly one of the most important poets working today. In Mozarts Third Brain, his thirteenth book of verse, he attempts a commentary on everything politics, current events, mathematics, love, ethics, music, philosophy, nature. Through the impeccable skill of award-winning translator Rika Lesser, Sonnevis long-form poem comes to life in English with the full force of its loose, fractured, and radiating intensity. A poetic tour de force that darts about dynamically and imaginatively, Mozarts Third Brain weaves an elaborate web of associations as the poet tries to integrate his private consciousness with the world around him. Through Lessers translation and preface, and an enlightening foreword by Rosanna Warren, readers of English will finally gain access to this masterpiece.