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I Walked on into the Forest : Poems for a Little Girl by Tua Forsström (2022, Trade Paperback)

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I walked on into the forest by David McDuff, Tua Forsström. Author David McDuff, Tua Forsström. I walked on into the forest is her twelfth book of poetry, her first since One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake, the collection which followed her celebrated trilogy, I studied once at a wonderful faculty, published in English translation by Bloodaxe in 2006.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBloodaxe Books

ISBN-101780375824

ISBN-139781780375823

eBay Product ID (ePID)20050387882

Product Key Features

Book TitleI Walked on Into the Forest : Poems for a Little Girl

Number of Pages96 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2022

TopicSubjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Women Authors, European / General

GenrePoetry

AuthorTua Forsström

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight4.9 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsForsström has Finland-Swedish modernism in her bloodstream but has kept a coolly timeless tone in her poetry. Her style can with some reason be called classical... What we read slowly reveals its true poetic face - the face of the lament, the elegy... It's most beautifully and bravely done., 'Continuing the spacious, plaintive and acute music of her previous works, this latest book is written through with grief at the loss of the poet's grand-daughter... This frost-laced, snow-laden and quiet world is both a real and a deeply-storied landscape, and Forsström's careful navigation is a refreshingly delicate wonder which slows the reader's pace, mesmerising us as we go.', 'I don't know what I am going to need on the day that I have to face major loss, but I'm already writing a reminder to myself to go to the bookshelf then and pick out all of Tua Forsström's books.', 'Tua Forsström writes poetry that comes stealing up on you. There is something curious about her poems, a way of adhering to the world that is hard to put one's finger on.', 'Forsström has Finland-Swedish modernism in her bloodstream but has kept a coolly timeless tone in her poetry. Her style can with some reason be called classical... What we read slowly reveals its true poetic face - the face of the lament, the elegy... It's most beautifully and bravely done.'

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal821.914

Edition DescriptionBilingual 'facing page' edition

SynopsisTua Forsström is a visionary Finland-Swedish poet who has become Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Her poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland, seeking harmony between the troubled human heart and the threatened natural world. I walked on into the forest is her twelfth book of poetry, her first since One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake (2012/2015), the collection which followed her celebrated trilogy, I studied once at a wonderful faculty (2003), published in English translation by Bloodaxe in 2006. In some sense a continuation of the previous collection, her new book focuses more acutely on the themes of death and grief, and in particular the devastating loss of her beloved granddaughter. It shows her poetry's tone of inner discourse shifting imperceptibly towards a new and harsh gravity. As Sweden's August Prize jury commented on her work as a whole, this is poetry 'both melancholy and impassioned', expressing a 'struggle against meaninglessness, disintegration, destruction - against death in life'., Tua Forsström is a visionary Finland-Swedish poet who has become Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Her poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland, seeking harmony between the troubled human heart and the threatened natural world. I walked on into the forest is her twelfth book of poetry, her first since One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake , the collection which followed her celebrated trilogy, I studied once at a wonderful faculty , published in English translation by Bloodaxe in 2006. In some sense a continuation of the previous collection, her new book focuses more acutely on the themes of death and grief, and in particular the devastating loss of her beloved granddaughter. It shows her poetry's tone of inner discourse shifting imperceptibly towards a new and harsh gravity. As Sweden's August Prize jury commented on her work as a whole, this is poetry 'both melancholy and impassioned', expressing a 'struggle against meaninglessness, disintegration, destruction - against death in life'., Tua Forsström is one of Finland's best-loved Swedish-language poets. Her poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland, seeking harmony between the troubled human heart and the threatened natural world. Her new book focuses acutely on death and grief, and in particular the devastating loss of her beloved granddaughter., Tua Forsström is a visionary Finland-Swedish poet who has become Finland's most celebrated contemporary poet. Her new book focuses acutely on death and grief, and in particular the devastating loss of her beloved granddaughter. Her poetry draws its sonorous and plangent music from the landscapes of Finland, seeking harmony between the troubled human heart and the threatened natural world. Bloodaxe published her celebrated trilogy I studied once at a wonderful faculty (2006) followed by One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake (2015). Forsström was recently made a member of the Swedish Academy which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. Swedish-English dual language text.

LC Classification NumberPT9876.16.O73