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I am HUGELY enjoying doing these Seasons Readings recommendations and I'm enjoying reading everyone else's even more! I mean I never need encouraging to buy more books but it's nice to have some fresh suggestions :D
#SeasonsReadings
12. Book of poems I've been reading a LOT of poetry recently so this is another hard one (all these are hard, how do you choose ONE book?!) I've decided I'm going obscure with a poet I absolutely adore but isn't at all well known as this seems as good an opportunity as any to talk about her.
I finally got hold of a copy of Love & Solitude, selected poems by Edith Södergran a few years ago and I was SO thrilled. One day I'll find an English copy of her Complete Works but I fear that might be a long way off. Edith Södergran was a Finnish poet who spoke, and wrote, in Swedish who died of TB aged just 31. Her poetry is incredibly beautiful and very lyrical and, considering she was ill for most of her short life, there's an amazing thread of hopefulness that runs through them. I want to let go -
so I don't give a damn about fine writing,
I'm rolling my sleeves up.
The dough's rising...
Oh what a shame
I can't bake cathedrals...
that sublimity of style
I've always yearned for...
Child of our time -
haven't you found the right shell for your soul?
Before I die I
shall
bake a cathedral.
(if I hadn't said that I'd have said Dorothy Parker's Complete Poems because I love her writing- poetry, fiction and essays! PLUS how can you not love a woman who wrote If with the literate I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.
Especially give how often words are misattributed to HER these days.
#SeasonsReadings
12. Book of poems I've been reading a LOT of poetry recently so this is another hard one (all these are hard, how do you choose ONE book?!) I've decided I'm going obscure with a poet I absolutely adore but isn't at all well known as this seems as good an opportunity as any to talk about her.
I finally got hold of a copy of Love & Solitude, selected poems by Edith Södergran a few years ago and I was SO thrilled. One day I'll find an English copy of her Complete Works but I fear that might be a long way off. Edith Södergran was a Finnish poet who spoke, and wrote, in Swedish who died of TB aged just 31. Her poetry is incredibly beautiful and very lyrical and, considering she was ill for most of her short life, there's an amazing thread of hopefulness that runs through them. I want to let go -
so I don't give a damn about fine writing,
I'm rolling my sleeves up.
The dough's rising...
Oh what a shame
I can't bake cathedrals...
that sublimity of style
I've always yearned for...
Child of our time -
haven't you found the right shell for your soul?
Before I die I
shall
bake a cathedral.
(if I hadn't said that I'd have said Dorothy Parker's Complete Poems because I love her writing- poetry, fiction and essays! PLUS how can you not love a woman who wrote If with the literate I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.
Especially give how often words are misattributed to HER these days.