One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake
En kvaell i oktober rodde jag ut pa sjoen
Published on 29. January 2015
78 pages
978-1-78037-244-0 (ISBN)
Description
Tua Forsstrom is a visionary Finland-Swedish poet who has become Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Her poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland, seeking harmony between the troubled human heart and the threatened natural world. One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake is her first new collection since her celebrated trilogy, I studied once at a wonderful faculty, published by Bloodaxe in 2006. As Sweden's August Prize jury commented, this is poetry 'both melancholy and impassioned', expressing a 'struggle against meaninglessness, disintegration, destruction - against death in life'. Bilingual Swedish-English edition.
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English
Place of publication
Tarset
United Kingdom
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0,34 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78037-244-0 (9781780372440)
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One Evening in October I Rowed out on the Lake
En kvaell i oktober rodde jag ut pa sjoen
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Tua Forsstrom was born in 1947 in Borga (Porvoo) in Svenskfinland, the Swedish-speaking part of Finland. A much acclaimed Finland-Swedish poet, she has won major literary honours in Sweden as well as Finland, and wider recognition with her sixth collection, Snoleopard (Snow Leopard, 1987), notably in Sweden and in Britain, where David McDuff's translation (Bloodaxe Books, 1990) received a Poetry Book Society Translation Award. In 2003 she published her trilogy, I studied once at a wonderful faculty, whose English translation by David McDuff and Stina Katchadourian was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2006.
Content
- Cover
- Description
- Title Page
- Contents
- Mörkret, regnet.
- The darkness, the rain.
- Söndra i dess minsta.
- Split into their smallest parts.
- Jag föll genom papperen.
- I fell through the papers.
- Du skulle inte.
- You wouldn't.
- Det finns fyra slags.
- There are four kinds.
- Jag sade att jag.
- I said that I have been.
- Jag talar om.
- I tell my doctor.
- Rodde ut på sjön.
- Rowed out on the lake.
- En morgon med nyheterna.
- A morning with the news.
- Jag gick till källaren.
- I went to the basement.
- Vi skyndar ut.
- We hurry out.
- Det är svårt att.
- It is hard.
- Nästa kapitel heter.
- The next chapter is called.
- Vi anlände strax.
- We arrived just.
- Det lönar sig inte.
- It's not worth.
- Jag skriver till.
- I write to.
- Det snöade för första.
- It snowed for the first.
- Titta, bassängen är blå.
- Look, the pool is blue.
- Men varför är du.
- But why are you.
- Molnen gråten.
- The clouds the crying.
- Efter stormen avtog.
- After the storm the falling.
- Om snöns inverkan.
- Of the snow's effect.
- De utvecklingsstörda.
- The intellectually disabled.
- Nästa kapitel heter.
- The next chapter is called.
- De döda talar vänligt.
- The dead speak kindly.
- Men jag talade ju.
- But I was only talking.
- Du skulle inte.
- You wouldn't.
- Nästa kapitel heter.
- The next chapter is called.
- En liten flicka.
- A little girl.
- Det finns bilder.
- There are pictures.
- Med sorgen är det.
- The thing with sorrow.
- Nästa kapitel heter.
- The next chapter is called.
- Notes
- About the Author
- Copyright
