The Star By My Head Poets From Sweden by Malena Mo and translated by Jonas Ellerstrom

This is poetry from Sweden.

The Star By My Head Poets From Sweden by Malena Mo translated by Jonas Ellerstrom is published by Milkweed Editions. This is a Book originally written in Swedish. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781571314611E12.

The Star By My Head: Poets From Sweden, selected and translated by Jonas Ellerström with Malena Mörling associated in the metadata, should be treated as an anthology rather than as a single-author collection. Its value is in giving English-language readers a constellation of Swedish voices rather than one private weather system. Anthologies like this are useful because they let a literary tradition feel less like a monument and more like conversation. The reader can move by contrast: image to image, decade to decade, temperament to temperament. The point is not to decide what Swedish poetry “is” in one sentence. The point is to experience how many different ways a language has found to think, grieve, praise, estrange, and sing.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.