Book record
A time in Xanadu
Lars Gustafsson
Translated from Swedish by John Irons
Lars Gustafsson’s A time in Xanadu, translated by John Irons, carries the peculiar elegance of a poet willing to let thought become travel. The title gestures toward imagination, empire, dream, and literary inheritance, but the pleasure of the book is likely in how those large frames are made intimate. Gustafsson’s poetry often belongs to that borderland between philosophy and ordinary wonder, where the mind thinks itself into a room, a landscape, or a remembered world and then has to live with what it finds there. Published by Copper Canyon Press, this Swedish entry gives the library a voice of reflective wandering. It is a book for readers who like poems that seem calm until the floor of reality shifts under them.
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Copper Canyon Press
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- ISBN
- 9781556592751