Kuuskajaskari

Zusatztext

A bilingual edition - in Finnish, and in English of Leevi Lehto - of a seminal work of the Second Generation Finnish Modernist poetry, by the virtuoso poet Jyrki Pellinen - a "description of life" that "is not tender", an account of the "agony of coming into the world", of a becoming-a-poet-as-a-thing in a process of endless dismemberment, struggling "among creatures of my own size, castle lords, furuncle-faces, robberly inclined, old women, and other such objects of nature".

Autorenportrait

Jyrki Pellinen (born 1940) has published well over fourty books in Finnish - as well poetry as fiction. He is the receiver of the National Literary Price (in 1966, 1974 and 1984) and the prestigious Eino Leino Award (in 1991). He is also a talented musician and a prolific visual artist.

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