Guarding the Air by Gunnar Harding and translated by Roger Greenwald

This is poetry from Sweden.

Guarding the Air by Gunnar Harding translated by Roger Greenwald is published by Tradeselect Limited. This is a Book originally written in Swedish. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780985612276E12.

There is a strong literary gravity around Guarding the Air, Gunnar Harding’s Swedish-language work translated by Roger Greenwald. The book’s center of force is Gunnar Harding’s guarded air, where Swedish lyric attention becomes atmosphere, protection, and the difficult holding of what cannot be grasped, but I would not want to reduce it to theme alone. Poetry like this is often most alive where it refuses to behave as explanation. It lets place, body, history, and sound touch in ways that prose summary can only approximate. As a translated entry from Sweden, it gives the shelf another angle of approach: not simply what happened there, but how a voice from there can remake English.

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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