When she died in poverty at 31, Edith Södergran had been dismissed as a mad, megalomaniac aristocrat by most of her Finnish contemporaries. Today she is regarded as Finland's greatest modern poet. Her poems - written in Swedish - are intensely visionary, and have been compared with Rimbaud's, yet they also show deep af&#64257;nities with Russian poetry, with the work of Blok, Mayakovsky and Severyanin in particular. Born in 1892 of a Finno-Swedish family, Edith Södergran grew up in Raivola, a village on the Russian border, but was educated at a German school in St Petersburg. Her early in&#64258;uences were Goethe and Heine, and she wrote &#64257;rst in German. The driving force of Edith Södergran's mature Swedish poetry was her struggle against TB, which she contracted in 1908. For much of her short life she was a semi-invalid in sanatoria in Finland and Switzerland. Her last years were spent amid the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and in desperate poverty in Raivola, where she died in 1923. Edith Södergran saw herself as an inspired free spirit of a new order, a disciple on her own terms of Nietzsche, then of the nature mystic Rudolf Steiner, and &#64257;nally of Christ. But her voice is subtle and wholly original. It transcends the limits imposed by her illness to make lyrical statements about the violence and darkness of the modern world - imagistic poems that are alarming in the surreal beauty of their fragmentary diction.David McDuff's edition is the &#64257;rst complete translation into English of Edith Södergran's Swedish poetry. His versions adhere as closely as possible to the spirit and the letter of the Swedish original. In his introductory essay David McDuff gives a comprehensive and illuminating account of Edith Södergran's life and work.

Complete Poems (English and Swedish Edition)

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Södergran, Edith

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Text: English, Swedish (translation) Original Language: Swedish

Love & solitude: Selected poems, 1916-1923

Fjord Press

Love & Solitude: Selected Poems, 1916-1923 (English and Swedish Edition)

Fjord Pr

Elämäni, kuolemani ja kohtaloni: Kootut runot (Finnish Edition)

Otava

Samlade dikter (Swedish Edition)

Hennes samlade dikter från 1916 till 1925. Dikter (1916) Septemberlyran (1918) Rosenaltaret (1919) Brokiga iakktagelser (1919) Framtidens skugga (1920) Tankar om naturen (1922) Landet som icke är (postumt, 1925)

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This volume presents a new English translation of 32 poems from Edith Södergran's 1916 collection, Dikter, alongside the original Swedish texts.

Edith Södergran: Selected Poems of 1916

BARRETT, DAVID

A collection of letters by Swedish-speaking Finnish poet Edith Sodergran. These letters are almost all that remains to us of her work, apart from her poetry. They are unusually spontaneous and show Sodergran in many moods, passionate and caring, intransigent, desperate for human contact, and racked by religious doubts that threaten to stifle the very poetry for which she lived. The collection is accompanied by an introduction and notes which both contextualize the letters and greatly enhance our understanding of Sodergran's life and poetry.

The Poet Who Created Herself: Selected Letters of Edith Södergran

Essays & Correspondence

Norvik Pr

Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellerström. If there is, in this world, a possibility for an entirely free and pure poetics, a state of writing from an unbounded spontaneity carried as if entwined with the present moment, then that might have been the poetics of Edith Södergran. She once wrote: "There are words I have never heard, but I need those words. Perhaps your own heart—could give you or tell you those words. But have you ever believed your own heart?"

On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems

History & Criticism

Marick Press

Poetry. Translated from the Swedish and the German by Samuel Charters. Edith Södergran is a wonder, and WE WOMEN brings together poetry that spans her lifetime—a lifetime of sickness and solitude where she sang and communed with nature. Containing juvenilia, as well as aphorisms written late in her short life, this collection reveals Södergran's many influences—French Symbolism, German Expressionism and Russian Futurism—distilled into a personal lyricism all her own and brought into focus by Samuel Charters' sensitive, acutely aware translations.

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Complete Poems (English and Swedish Edition)

Love & solitude: Selected poems, 1916-1923

Love & solitude: Selected poems, 1916-1923

Love & Solitude: Selected Poems, 1916-1923 (English and Swedish Edition)

Elämäni, kuolemani ja kohtaloni: Kootut runot (Finnish Edition)

Samlade dikter (Swedish Edition)

Edith Södergran: Selected Poems of 1916

The Poet Who Created Herself: Selected Letters of Edith Södergran

On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems

We Women