The Star by My Head: Poets from Sweden

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 Transtr mer.

From Edith S dergran to Gunnar Ekel f to Nobel Prize-winning Tomas Transtr mer, 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 M rling and Jonas Ellerstr m. 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 01/14/2014
ISBN: 9781571314611
Pages: 183
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d