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Dog Star Notations: Selected Poems 1999 - 2016
Hakan Sandell
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Description for Dog Star Notations: Selected Poems 1999 - 2016
Paperback. One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Swedish poetry and a leading proponent of Retrogardism Translator(s): Coyle, Bill. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Poetry rejoices even if the culture dies,over the girl with her first electric, how her high,thin voice, amplified many timesover by the loudspeaker, is like a giant'sin the green grass of the festival site.from 'Poetry rejoices...'Dog Star Notations collects highlights from almost two decades of Hakan Sandell's poetry. Drawing on seven collections and completed by a selection of new work, this volume is the unrivalled Anglophone introduction to one of contemporary Sweden's finest poets. The poems are Retrogardist, a term Sandell first used in the nineties to signal his rejection of Post-Modernist styles and a return to the perennial resources ... Read more
Poetry rejoices even if the culture dies,over the girl with her first electric, how her high,thin voice, amplified many timesover by the loudspeaker, is like a giant'sin the green grass of the festival site.from 'Poetry rejoices...'Dog Star Notations collects highlights from almost two decades of Hakan Sandell's poetry. Drawing on seven collections and completed by a selection of new work, this volume is the unrivalled Anglophone introduction to one of contemporary Sweden's finest poets. The poems are Retrogardist, a term Sandell first used in the nineties to signal his rejection of Post-Modernist styles and a return to the perennial resources ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
147g
Number of Pages
46
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784101848
SKU
V9781784101848
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99-15
About Hakan Sandell
Hakan Sandell was born in 1962 in Malmo, southern Sweden, he has lived abroad for most of his life, in Denmark, Ireland, and now Norway. He has published six collections of poetry, the most recent of which is 2013's Ode till Demiurgen (Ode to the Demiurge), and is a regular contributor to the Retrograd magazine Aorta.Bill Coyle's poems and translations ... Read more
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