{"product_id":"a-child-is-not-a-knife-selected-poems-of-gziran-sonnevi-9780691015439","title":"A Child Is Not a Knife: Selected Poems of Göran Sonnevi","description":"\u003cp\u003eGöran Sonnevi is one of Sweden's most celebrated, respected, and prolific poets. For this first book-length selection of Sonnevi to appear in English, Rika Lesser has chosen works written between 1971 and 1989--although most of the poems come from the last decade and from Sonnevi's last three books, which form part of the single \u003ci\u003eoändlig\u003c\/i\u003e [unending\/infinite\/interminable] poem that he continues to write from book to book. Of Lesser's introduction to the work, Richard Howard writes, \"Lesser's wonderful prose texts at the outset provide not only an ingress into complex and baffling matter but one of the most determined statements of the translator's text since Walter Benjamin.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \"Åby, Öland; 1982\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe are here in the ultimate lives of our bodies\u003cbr\u003enegations of the ultimate negation\u003cbr\u003eWe are complete parts of the world\u003cbr\u003eWe rise up out of infinity\u003cbr\u003elike the limestone flats from the sea Like the stars\u003cbr\u003eWe are denials of infinity\u003cbr\u003eOne day we shall reach all the way there\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Göran Sonnevi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691015439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eG?ran Sonnevi\u003c\/b\u003e has written twelve books of poems and assembled and revised collections of his poems (most of which are in print in Sweden in mass-market paperback editions). \u003ci\u003eRika Lesser\u003c\/i\u003e is a poet and has translated numerous works of poetry, including a selection of the poems of Rilke, \u003ci\u003eRilke: Between Roots\u003c\/i\u003e (Princeton). For a group of poems from \u003ci\u003eA Child Is Not a Knife\u003c\/i\u003e, she received the Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award in 1992 and the American Scandinavian Foundation's\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42992830218355,"sku":"9.78069E+12","price":59.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_53a26f60-d51d-424b-a5db-0e70321d2689.jpg?v=1744718482","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/a-child-is-not-a-knife-selected-poems-of-gziran-sonnevi-9780691015439","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}