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The Poet Who Created Herself: Selected Letters of Edith Södergran

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Availability:In StockContributor:Edith Södergran, Silvester Mazzarella (Translator), Hagar Olsson (Commentaries by)Publish date:2015-06-15Pages:244
Language:EnglishPublisher:Norvik PressISBN-13:9781909408210ISBN-10:1909408212UPC:9781909408210Book Category:FictionSize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC7FF7GXQ9
Edith S dergran's vital, compelling and very personal poems have been translated into many languages, and several times into English. Written for the most part when she was dying of tuberculosis in a remote Finnish frontier village only a short train journey away from revolutionary Petrograd, they are a major contribution to European modernism. These letters are almost all that remains to us of her work, apart from the poetry. The most personal of them were written between 1919 and 1923 to two like-minded young Finland-Swedish writers, Hagar Olsson and Elmer Diktonius. They are unusually spontaneous and show S dergran in many moods, passionate and caring, intransigent, desperate for human contact, and racked by religious doubts that threaten to stifle the very poetry for which she lived. The collection is accompanied by an introduction and notes which both contextualize the letters and greatly enhance our understanding of S dergran's life and poetry.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Norvik PressISBN-13:9781909408210ISBN-10:1909408212UPC:9781909408210Book Category:FictionSize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC7FF7GXQ9
Publisher: Norvik Press

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