A companion volume to Gustfasson's popular collection, The Stillness of the World before Bach (New Directions, 1988). 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.
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An astounding leap into the complex world of concrete reality; Gustafsson can reduce time past and time future into the elements of the present moment. -- Peter J. Ulisse, Small Pond Magazine
Aristotle And The Crayfish
Aunt Svea
Austin, Texas
Ballad On The Paths In Vastmanland
The Birds
Birdsong, Echo Of The Original Paradise
Cartoon Of The Man With His Shadow Cut Off
The East To The Back Of Me
Elegy For The Old Mexican Woman And Her Dead Child
Elegy In Sorby
Elegy On Objects Mislaid And Forgotten
Elegy On The Density Of The World
Elegy On The Outer Boulevards
Elegy: On The Surface
Fichte And The Kerosene Lamp
For All Those Who Wait For Time To Pass
Four Short Poems: 1
Four Short Poems: 2
Four Short Poems: 3
Four Short Poems: 4
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A Letter To A Tyrant
The Little Roads
Meetings
Molyneux's Wife
On All That Glides In The Air
On Good Government
The Profession
Sestina On A Successful Volley
Seven Very Small Events
Smaller Gods
Snow Fantasia
The Starred Sky
U.s.a. In Summertime
Variations On A Theme By Silfverstolpe: Fuga Canonica
Variations On A Theme By Silfverstolpe: The Well, Then And Forever
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Gustafsson is altogether a poet who helps us live better. -- Stuart Friebert, Field
[H]is verse reflects the playful erudition and imaginative philosophizing that give his fiction its unique appeal. -- American Poet: Journal of the Academy of American Poets, Winter 2000-2001
Aristotle And The Crayfish
Aunt Svea
Austin, Texas
Ballad On The Paths In Vastmanland
The Birds
Birdsong, Echo Of The Original Paradise
Cartoon Of The Man With His Shadow Cut Off
The East To The Back Of Me
Elegy For The Old Mexican Woman And Her Dead Child
Elegy In Sorby
Elegy On Objects Mislaid And Forgotten
Elegy On The Density Of The World
Elegy On The Outer Boulevards
Elegy: On The Surface
Fichte And The Kerosene Lamp
For All Those Who Wait For Time To Pass
Four Short Poems: 1
Four Short Poems: 2
Four Short Poems: 3
Four Short Poems: 4
Fourth Bottom
Itemized Expenses
A Letter To A Tyrant
The Little Roads
Meetings
Molyneux's Wife
On All That Glides In The Air
On Good Government
The Profession
Sestina On A Successful Volley
Seven Very Small Events
Smaller Gods
Snow Fantasia
The Starred Sky
U.s.a. In Summertime
Variations On A Theme By Silfverstolpe: Fuga Canonica
Variations On A Theme By Silfverstolpe: The Well, Then And Forever
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Gustafsson is altogether a poet who helps us live better. -- Stuart Friebert, Field
[H]is verse reflects the playful erudition and imaginative philosophizing that give his fiction its unique appeal. -- American Poet: Journal of the Academy of American Poets, Winter 2000-2001
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Swedish
Original Language: Swedish
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