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One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake
Tua Forsström
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Description for One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake
Paperback. Bilingual Swedish-English edition of latest collection by Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Translator(s): McDuff, David. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 4. Weight in Grams: 114.
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'.
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'.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780371146
SKU
V9781780371146
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99-99
About Tua Forsström
Tua Forsström was born in 1947 in Borgå and currently lives in Helsinki. A much acclaimed Finland-Swedish poet, she has won major literary honours in Sweden as well as Finland. In 2019 she was elected a member of the Swedish Academy. She published her first book in 1972, En dikt om kärleck och annat (A Poem About Love and Other ... Read more
Reviews for One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake
'Icy intensity - aphoristic as well as mystical - a fragility that is wholly particular - Forsstrom's visions of loneliness and despair are tempered by a lyrical pluckiness - the tenderness of snow' - Adam Thorpe, Observer. 'Tua Forsstrom's poems give a sense of having crystallised under a great pressure - a survey of the landscape of grief, exercises in ... Read more