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9780811214414

Elegies and Other Poems

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  • ISBN13:

    9780811214414

  • ISBN10:

    0811214419

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-06-17
  • Publisher: New Directions

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Summary

Lars Gustafsson is one of Sweden's leading and most prolific men of letters -- a poet, philosopher, and fiction writer with dozens of books to his credit since his literary debut, at the age of twenty, in 1956. Although known in the English-speaking world primarily for his novels and short fiction, Gustafsson is nevertheless one of the most frequently translated of contemporary Swedish poets. Elegies and Other Poems is a companion volume to The Stillness of the World Before Bach (New Directions, 1988). As in that earlier gathering, editor Christopher Middleton has made his selection from several of the poet's books and included his own translations as well as those of others: Yvonne Sandstroem, Bill Brookshire, and Philip Martin. Readers of Gustafsson's fiction will recognize in his verse the elegant mix of intellect and sheer play, the ruminations of a mind that apprehends humanity in the riddles of the universe. ("Clocks tick tentatively in tropical rooms,/Time takes children with it, makes them grow.//Where the children stood, suddenly silence.") Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Cartoon of the Man with His Shadow Cut Off
1(2)
Sestina on a Successful Volley [YLS]
3(2)
Ballad of the Paths in Vastmanland
5(2)
On Good Government
7(3)
The Starred Sky ... [PM]
10(1)
The Birds
11(1)
On All That Glides in the Air
12(2)
Birdsong, Echo of the Original Paradise
14(2)
Meetings
16(1)
A Letter to a Tyrant
17(2)
Austin, Texas [YLS]
19(3)
For All Those Who Wait for Time to Pass [YLS]
22(1)
Elegy: On the Surface
23(3)
Elegy for the Old Mexican Woman and Her Dead Child [YLS]
26(3)
Elegy on the Outer Boulevards [YLS]
29(2)
Elegy on the Density of the World
31(2)
Elegy on Objects Mislaid and Forgotten
33(2)
Elegy in Sorby
35(2)
Itemized Expenses [YLS]
37(1)
Seven Very Small Events
38(2)
Aristotle and the Crayfish [YLS]
40(8)
from Variations on a Theme by Silfverstolpe [BB]
The Well, Then and Forever
42(1)
Fuga Canonica
43(5)
The East to the Back of Me
48(7)
Molyneux's Wife
55(3)
Four Short Poems
58(2)
Aunt Svea
60(1)
Fourth Bottom
61(1)
The Little Roads
62(1)
The Profession
63(2)
Smaller Gods
65(1)
Snow Fantasia
66(1)
Fichte and the Kerosene Lamp
67(1)
U.S.A. in Summertime
68(2)
Postscript 70

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