Which once had been meadow by Ann Jäderlund and translated by Johannes Göransson

This is poetry from Sweden.

Which once had been meadow by Ann Jäderlund translated by Johannes Göransson is published by BSE. This is a Book originally written in Swedish. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780989810364E12.

Which once had been meadow, by Ann Jäderlund, is a Swedish poetry collection from Sweden, translated by Johannes Göransson, published by BSE in 2017. It is a Swedish collection that turns landscape into aftermath, asking what remains when a place has already changed beyond recognition. Jäderlund’s title carries elegy inside grammar, as if the poem begins from the ache of something remembered in the wrong tense. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can be felt. Start with the pressure of the title, the texture of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. For this library, the book matters as more than a record of Sweden; it is an invitation to let poetry remain particular, difficult, and alive without asking it to behave like explanation.

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.