What became words / Claes Andersson ; poems translated from the Finland-Swedish by Rika Lesser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andersson, Claes, 1937-

Contributor:

Lesser, Rika.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Sun & Moon classics ; 121.

Sun & Moon classics

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

Finnish

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

165 pages ; 19 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Sun & Moon Press, 1996.

Contents:

From the singular meeting

Maturity

Words, like elements, have hidden valences

As If Nothing Happened

The City Is Called Helsinki

Grandmother Was Hairy and Ironic

It begins with a meeting

"Freedom cannot mean..."

Elementary Statuology

In Helsinki the houses are not especially handsome

To the Memory of Kraepelin

When a person goes to pieces

from Conditions

Whatever can a snail do against a tank

Loneliness

Roommates

A man once thought, in desperation

Don't idealize the keeping silent

The old Icelander on the TV screen

(to a new person)

In this country we manufacture cages

We know so little about the birds

What became words in me

Mutters to himself as lonely people do

(the new theology)

Nowadays there's a lot of talk about identity

Some people are always smiling

(summary)

When I was born, Helsinki was a medium-sized town

Despair is far too large a word

(in memoriam)

Andersson is making a damned racket.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1557133026

9781557133021

OCLC:

35679204