Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Hildred Crill. Per
Wastberg's poems move through landscape and memory recreating
neighborhoods, houses and docks in sharp detail while at the same
time contemplating invisible forces: Time's bones are brittleand
the cold bath house in a deplorable state.Insurance for longhorn
beetle not paid.The cuckoo calls from a large saucepan.Under a
thinned sky we dipinto sweetness of overripe fruit.The
self-analytical shadows passover the spirit level's blind eye.The
poems track the interior of the self as well as imagined lives of
others through time, through childhood, youth, love and death. Yet
they give no easy determination of place, no simplistic discovery
of direction. Even the process of dying is closely and slowly
observed in advance, both the physicality ("Like when you let go of
a load of wood and pull off an icy glove") and the ineffable ("But
the alphabet still glows, like asteroids over the expanses of
snow"). COMPASS BEARING presents twenty of Wastberg's poems in
translation selected from his 2004 collection, Tillbaka i tid (Back
in Time), poems that span more than five decades.
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