Foto: Berndt Klyvare
LATE ARRIVAL ON EARTH
(1932)
FERRYMAN'S SONG (1941)
NON SERVIAM (1945)
STROUNTES (1955)
GUIDE TO THE
UNDERWORLD (1967)
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
Some of the most appreciated poems by Gunnar Ekelöf on different languages.