Book record
Outside the calendar
Kjell Espmark
Translated from Swedish by Robin Fulton Macpherson
Kjell Espmark’s Outside the calendar, translated from Swedish by Robin Fulton Macpherson, sounds from the title alone like a book interested in time’s loopholes: memory outside chronology, experience outside neat sequence, the strange way a life keeps continuing after the dates no longer explain it. Espmark belongs to a Swedish poetic tradition that can make thought feel architectural without draining it of feeling. The poems should be approached as meditations rather than declarations. They offer a way of reading where the calendar is useful, but insufficient. What matters is the afterimage of a moment, the pressure that remains once the event has passed. For the library, this entry helps show Swedish poetry as philosophical, spare, and quietly unsettled.
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Marick Press
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- ISBN
- 9781934851388