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Eyes From a Dream »

Authors: Agneta Pleijel, Anne Born (Translator), Ruth Fainlight
ISBN-13: 9781856100151, ISBN-10: 1856100154
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Forest Books
Date Published: December 1991
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Agneta Pleijel

Book Synopsis

The work of this poet, novelist, and President of Swedish PEN displays an imaginative brilliance and a burning concern for humanity. These poems of personal and public commitment are set in the troubled Poland of the early 1980s.

	Introduction
I	Polonaise in A major, opus 40 no 1
	Polonaise in A major, opus 40 no 1	3
II	Polish Suite I (May 1981)
	The city	8
	Train journey	9
	The lung	10
	The painter	13
	Movements	14
III	Polish Suite II (December 1981)
	Eyes from a dream	23
	To an involuntary emigrant	27
	A letter	29
	A poet	30
	The frozen map	31
IV	A Winter in Stockholm
	From my window	36
	To the unborn	40
	The sound of schoolchildren at play	41
	My sister's body against mine...	42
	Something irrevocable has happened...	43
	It feels like an absence	44
	Weight	45
	The dead queen	46
	The winter	49

Subjects

Poetry

Scandinavian Poetry

Swedish poetry -> Translations into English
Fiction Books & Literature