Lend Me Your Voice - Softcover

Espmark, Kjell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934851221 ISBN 13: 9781934851227

Publisher: Marick Press, 2010

Synopsis

Imagine moments when all the experience and all the values of a human being are condensed into a sudden insight. The universe of time surrounding you might then glitter like a milky way from such epiphanies - sometimes ecstatic, more often bitter but always with the luster of human understanding. Among them you could even suspect black holes, fortunes so bitter and inexplicable that they cannot emit any light at all. If we managed to pick up these various testimonies, how would they sound? It is the task of the poet to answer this question - a challenge that could be worded: "Lend me your voice!" The moments recreated in this way form a series of poems ranging from the earliest times to the present, a modest history on the margin of History. A similar catalogue was begun more than two thousand years ago by the anonymous Greek poets who gave voices to the many dead in the work known as The Greek Anthology - an inspiration also for Edgar Lee Masters in The Spoon River Anthology. "Vintergata is the best collection of poetry published so far by a Swedish poet in the 21st century." -Svenska Dagbladet Newspaper

About this title

About the Author:

Kjell Espmark (b. 1930) is a poet, novelist, and literary historian. He is also former professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Stockholm. Since 1981 he is a member of the Swedish Academy, and since 1988 a member also of its Nobel Committee (chairman 1988-2004). He has been awarded a considerable number of prizes, including the Bellman Prize (for poetry) and the Schuck Prize (for literary criticism). His latest awards are the Kellgren Prize and the Great Prize of De Nio. Espmark is an officer of L'Ordre de Merite.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marick Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1934851221
• ISBN 13: 9781934851227
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140