Elegies: And Other Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811214414)

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, 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 volume, 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.

Author: Lars Gustafsson
ISBN-10: 0811214419
ISBN-13: 9780811214414
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 06/17/2000
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.10lbs
Size: 7.93h x 5.21w x 0.23d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/31/2000 pg. 92