The Poet Who Created Herself - Selected Letters of Edith Soedergran (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Edith Soedergran's vital, compelling and very personal poems have been translated into many languages, and several times into English. Written for the most part when she was dying of tuberculosis in a remote Finnish frontier village only a short train journey away from revolutionary Petrograd, they are a major contribution to European modernism. These letters are almost all that remains to us of her work, apart from the poetry. The most personal of them were written between 1919 and 1923 to two like-minded young Finland-Swedish writers, Hagar Olsson and Elmer Diktonius. They are unusually spontaneous and show Soedergran in many moods, passionate and caring, intransigent, desperate for human contact, and racked by religious doubts that threaten to stifle the very poetry for which she lived. The collection is accompanied by an introduction and notes which both contextualize the letters and greatly enhance our understanding of Soedergran's life and poetry."

General

Imprint:	Norvik Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2015
Authors:	Edith Soedergran
Translators:	Silvester Mazzarella
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	244
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-909408-21-0
Subtitles:	Swedish
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-909408-21-2
Barcode:	9781909408210

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