ISBN: 9789510247839 - 88 Poems (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2000 first edition paperback in very good condition. No marks to pages, clean and bright, tight binding. The card cover has slight marking to front face, otherwise very good. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Text in English. 118 pp. Scuffing to the front cover. "Born in 1931, a member of the post-WWII 'modernist' generation of Finland's poets, Rekola works her language on the edges of whereof we can, and whereof we cannot speak; the I of her poem is unassuming, yet inviting- see what happens when you read these words as if you (or you, or you) had written them. As British poet Herbert Lomas has noted,'in spite of an impression of distance, there is also an extreme impression of closeness' Perhaps reminiscent, at first glance, of Sappho's 'fragments', certain classical Chinese poets' works and Imagist (and post-Imagist) poems in English, Mirkka Rekola's poems may be said to incorporate elements of all of the above, but their attention - and ours, as soon as we're willing to share it - focuses elsewhere, on the 'elsewhere' within ourselves and all phenomenal manifestations, be they quotidian or singular: call it spirit.".…

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Text in English. 118 pp. "Born in 1931, a member of the post-WWII 'modernist' generation of Finland's poets, Rekola works her language on the edges of whereof we can, and whereof we cannot speak; the I of her poem is unassuming, yet inviting- see what happens when you read these words as if you (or you, or you) had written them. As British poet Herbert Lomas has noted,'in spite of an impression of distance, there is also an extreme impression of closeness' Perhaps reminiscent, at first glance, of Sappho's 'fragments', certain classical Chinese poets' works and Imagist (and post-Imagist) poems in English, Mirkka Rekola's poems may be said to incorporate elements of all of the above, but their attention - and ours, as soon as we're willing to share it - focuses elsewhere, on the 'elsewhere' within ourselves and all phenomenal manifestations, be they quotidian or singular: call it spirit.".…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Wraps. Slim 8vo.pp. 124. Signed presentation copy: "Gentille ja Humelle. 30.11. 2008. Mirkka." Original publisher wraps in grey, lettered white and gold with a small abstract illustration on the front cover. Includes Translator's Note. ISBN:9510247839./Mirkka Elina Rekola (26 June 1931 Ð 5 February 2014) was a Finnish writer from Tampere who published poems, aphorisms, essays. Very good indeed. Covers faintly rubbed. Signedes. …