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LATE ARRIVAL ON EARTH

(1932)

 

THE FLOWERS

 

APOTHESIS

 

FERRYMAN'S SONG (1941)

 

I BELIEVE

 

EVERYONE

 

EUPHORIA

 

NON SERVIAM (1945)

 

NON SERVIAM

 

ABSENTIA ANIMI

 

STROUNTES (1955)

 

WHEN ONE HAS

 

GUIDE TO THE

UNDERWORLD (1967)

 

GIVE ME POISON

 

When one has come as far

 

When one has come as far in meaninglessness as I

each word is interesting again:

Finds in the loam

That you turn with an archeological spade:

The little word “you”

perhaps a bead

that once hung from someone’s neck

The grand word “I”

perhaps a flint shard

that someone  in his toothlessness used to scrape his tough

meat

 

 

Songs of something else. Selected poems by Gunnar Ekelöf translated by L. Nathan & J. Larson. Princeton, 1982, p. 129

 

 

 

 

 

1_SWD 2_UNK 3_GER 7_FIN 7_FIN 7_FIN

7_FIN 7_FIN 7_FIN 7_FIN 7_FIN 6_ARA 7_FIN

 

Some of the most appreciated poems by Gunnar Ekelöf on different languages.