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To Catch Life Anew: 10 Swedish Women Poets
To Catch Life Anew 10 Swedish Women Poets Author:Eva Claeson A rich variety of perspectives from Sonia Akesson, Kristina Lugn, Barbro Dahlin, Margareta and Johanna Ekstrom, Elis. Hermodsson, Katarina Frostenson, Eva Strom, Marie Lunddquist and Elisabeth Rynell, enlighten us on the women's entry into what was a man's world of poetry in the 1060s through the yearly awakening in spring from the nordic lig... more »ht and a long dark winter in southern Sweden; and a poem on a child in Afghanistan today, naked, "whose shout is not heard." With inspired translations by Eva Claeson, we are invited to hear the original voices and their transparent rendering in English. "Helene Cixous stated in 1975 that only if women write their own lives will a new and rebellious text appear that will change the world and history. It is that rebellious text ...in Eva Claeson's selection of poems by contemporary Swedish women poets." --from the introduction by Ia Dubois.« less
ISBN-13: 9781882291021 ISBN-10: 1882291026 Publication Date: 12/6/2007 Pages:149 Edition:Bilingual Swedish an Rating: