Book record
We Women
Edith Sodergran
Translated from Swedish by Samuel Charters
We Women, Edith Södergran’s work translated by Samuel Charters, offers another entrance into a Swedish poet whose lyric force still feels startlingly alive. Södergran does not write womanhood as a decorative theme. She turns it into stance, pressure, body, prophecy, and refusal. The poems belong to modernism, but they do not need to be approached as an academic checkpoint. They are more immediate than that. They ask what it means for a speaker to announce herself when the world has already tried to diminish the terms of her existence. This is a book to read for courage, strangeness, and the bright severity of self-making. Tavern Books gives the shelf a compact, charged way into that voice.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Tavern Books
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- ISBN
- 9781935635468