The Time In Malmö on the Earth
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The Time in Malmö on the Earth (1974) is a unified series of poems based on the author’s daily life and reflections in 1970-73, when he was struggling to recover from a kidney ailment. The poems address the local and the universal, the personal and the political, the ephemeral and the eternal. Werup combines an openness to experience, an appetite for life, with a strong impulse to do justice to conflicting reactions, unavoidable oppositions. And writing with nervous energy and a playful genius for juxtaposition, he achieves here a musicality rare in Swedish poetry. By the end of the book, the poems have flowed together to yield a manifold portrait of a life in a city, in a world.
Translated by Roger Greenwald
Poetry, 1989 • 6 x 9 inches • PB 72 pages • 978-0-92042-850-4
“For over a decade now, one of the most remarkable works of poetry produced in our country.” —Hans Akerberg, 1985
Werup is one of the outstanding Swedish poets. Since making his literary debut in 1971, Jacques Werup has published twenty volumes: poetry, fiction, travel books, translation.
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