Ideals Clearance |
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| Author:
| Parland, Henry |
| Translator:
| Goransson, Johannes |
| ISBN: | 978-1-933254-22-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2006 |
| Publisher: | Ugly Duckling Presse
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $12.00 |
Book Description:
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Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Johannes Goransson. Born in Russia to German-Baltic parents, Henry Parland (1908-1930) grew up in Finland and joined up with the Finland-Swedish Modernists as a teenager. Out of these linguistic and cultural convergences and displacements, Parland created a highly cosmopolitan poetry--influenced by avant-gardes from many corners of Europe and America, as well as jazz and Charlie Chaplin--that remains a powerful presence in modern Scandinavian...
More DescriptionPoetry. Translated from the Swedish by Johannes Goransson. Born in Russia to German-Baltic parents, Henry Parland (1908-1930) grew up in Finland and joined up with the Finland-Swedish Modernists as a teenager. Out of these linguistic and cultural convergences and displacements, Parland created a highly cosmopolitan poetry--influenced by avant-gardes from many corners of Europe and America, as well as jazz and Charlie Chaplin--that remains a powerful presence in modern Scandinavian literature. "Just when you thought there were no more discoveries to be made in modernist poetry, along comes a Finno-Swedish Russian German Lithuanian teen prodigy from the 1920's, Henry Parland, in Johannes Goransson's zippy translation. Did anyone ever pack so much delightful weirdness into so few lines?"--Eliot Weinberg.