5 Swedish PoetsThis volume includes selected poems by five contemporary Swedish poets: Kjell Espmark, Lennart Sjogren, Eva Strom, Staffan Soderblom and Werner Aspenstrom. The editor/translator is the author of Selected Poems 1963-78 and Coming Down to Earth and Spring is Soon. |
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Robin Fulton Macpherson. from Ögats resa ( The Eye's Journey ) ( 1992 ) The Tree 73 from Deras Ögon ( Their Eyes ) ( 1994 ) from The Calf First the wound in the forehead The starlings ... I touched your muzzle ... A great blind eye ...
Robin Fulton Macpherson. from Ögats resa ( The Eye's Journey ) ( 1992 ) The Tree 73 from Deras Ögon ( Their Eyes ) ( 1994 ) from The Calf First the wound in the forehead The starlings ... I touched your muzzle ... A great blind eye ...
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... eyes or in the eyes of others . And what you said in silence as you were hauled up I don't know . You've no eyes left , and hardly any skin but your teeth slowly eating their way through the sun's heat you are still baring them at me ...
... eyes or in the eyes of others . And what you said in silence as you were hauled up I don't know . You've no eyes left , and hardly any skin but your teeth slowly eating their way through the sun's heat you are still baring them at me ...
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... eyes wide open it drinks and as always by still water the calf is met by another calf from the watery depths . And their eyes and their muzzles drink from the same hand . An Unusually Clear and Mild Day I saw the snow unusually clear ...
... eyes wide open it drinks and as always by still water the calf is met by another calf from the watery depths . And their eyes and their muzzles drink from the same hand . An Unusually Clear and Mild Day I saw the snow unusually clear ...
Contents
Translators preface | 13 |
Translators preface | 53 |
Between Evening and Night | 59 |
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