On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems by Edith Sodergran and translated by Malena Morling

This is poetry from Sweden.

On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems by Edith Sodergran translated by Malena Morling is published by Marick Press. This is a Book originally written in Swedish. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781934851425E12.

On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems, Edith Södergran’s Swedish-language work translated by Malena Mörling, gives the reader one of those rare lyric entrances where the self seems to walk beyond its own body. Södergran is a poet of inward extremity, but not in a way that feels sealed off. Her poems tend to make solitude cosmic, turning illness, desire, womanhood, and perception into a weather system large enough to cross. I would not introduce this book as historical modernism first, even though that frame matters. Start with the feeling that a single voice is trying to stand under the impossible size of existence and speak anyway. Mörling’s translation keeps that astonishment available in 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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