Three-toed gull : selected poems / Jesper Svenbro ; translated from the Swedish by John Matthias and Lars-Håkan Svensson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Svenbro, Jesper, 1944-

Contributor:

Judith Moffett Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Matthias, John, 1941-

Svensson, Lars-Håkan, 1944-

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

Swedish

Subjects (All):

Svenbro, Jesper, 1944---Translations into English.

Svenbro, Jesper.

Svenbro, Jesper, 1944-.

Penn Provenance:

Moffett, Judith, 1942- (donor) (___ copy)

Physical Description:

134 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Perhaps the most widely respected and read poet of his generation in Sweden, Jesper Svenbro makes his debut in the English-speaking world with this selection of poems from his seven previous volumes and impeccably translated by John Matthias and Lars-Hakan Svensson. At times intellectual and erudite, at other times invoking intimacy and closely observed memories, Svenbro appears here at his most richly allusive, calling with consummate ease upon the myths of the Greeks, real and imaginary journeys in Lapland, the poetry of Sappho and T.S. Eliot, the plaints and joys of childhood, and the evocations of nature and of art. Whether in intricate formal innovations or flights of free verse, in the linguistic politics of "Stalin as Wolf" or the political linguistics of "A Critique of Pure Representation, " Svenbro's work captures in its every nuance the transcendent possibilities of the poet's art.

Notes:

"Hydra Books."

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Judith Moffett, GR '71.

ISBN:

0810118955

0810120429

OCLC:

51647767