Ideals Clearance
Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Johannes Goransson. Born in Russia to German-Baltic parents, Henry Parland (1908-1930) grew up in Finland and joined up with the Finland-Swedish Modernists as a teenager. Out of these linguistic and cultural convergences and displacements, Parland created a highly cosmopolitan poetry — influenced by avant-gardes from many corners of Europe and America, as well as jazz and Charlie Chaplin — that remains a powerful presence in modern Scandinavian literature. "Just when you thought there were no more discoveries to be made in modernist poetry, along comes a Finno-Swedish Russian German Lithuanian teen prodigy from the 1920's, Henry Parland, in Johannes Goransson's zippy translation. Did anyone ever pack so much delightful weirdness into so few lines?" — Eliot Weinberg.
- Author
- Henry Parland
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 104
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781933254227
- Genres
- poetry
- Release date
- 2006
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