Four new books that should be readable all over Scandinavia:
Jyrki Pellinen: Kuuskajaskari
A seminal work by the Finnish Second Generation Modernist virtuoso, together with an English translation, Afterword, and Notes by Leevi Lehto. "And as we now think and not a single thought goes as far up as the head."
Janna Kantola: Anteckningar från grannlandet
On translation of and by Saarikoski, Ekelöf, Joyce, Michaux. A book of essays - på svenska - by a Finnish literary scholar. "Inget folk är ensamt i sin litteratur".
Tuula Hökkä (ed.): Toiset ambivalentit äänet
Essays by female scholars on Nordic female poetics - Eldrid Lunden, Gunvor Hofmo, Eeva-Liisa Manner, Betti Alver, and Debora Vaarandi, in Norwegian, Finnish, Estonian, and/or English. "The other, ambivalent voices."
Aki Salmela: Word In Progress
Poems in Barbaric English by Aki Salmela, a young Finnish poet. "Funny no one paid sidewalkany attentacrossthion, I thong. lt consoliugh me, it fel me good."
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