A time in Xanadu by Lars Gustafsson and translated by John Irons

This is poetry from Sweden.

A time in Xanadu by Lars Gustafsson translated by John Irons is published by Copper Canyon Press. This is a Book originally written in Swedish. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781556592751E12.

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.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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