{"product_id":"morling-malena-star-by-mypb","title":"Mörling \u0026 Ellerström (eds.): The Star by My Head: Poets from Sweden","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilkweed Editions, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdited and Translated by: Malena Mörling \u0026amp; Jonas Ellerström\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: January 14, 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in partnership with the Poetry Foundation, this breathtaking anthology features eight of Sweden's most highly regarded poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Edith Södergran to Gunnar Ekelöf to Nobel Prize-winning Tomas Tranströmer, Sweden has long been home to a rich and luminous poetic tradition, notable for refreshing openness, striking honesty, and a rare transcendence that often springs from a keen attention to the natural world. In the poems of \u003cem\u003eThe Star by My Head\u003c\/em\u003e, which begin in the early twentieth century and come up to the present day, pinecones cluster out of reach and lilacs attempt their tentative rebirth each year. A bee makes a face like a newborn's. A name etched in vapor on a windowpane, and its erasure, brings happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith exquisite translations by internationally acclaimed poets and translators Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellerström offered alongside the Swedish originals, \u003cem\u003eThe Star by My Head\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential bilingual volume and the premiere American anthology of its kind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817236836375,"sku":"9781571314611","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/7865025-L.jpg?v=1703282560","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/morling-malena-star-by-mypb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}