Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Hildred Crill. Per Wastberg's poems move through landscape and memory recreating neighborhoods, houses and docks in sharp detail while at the same time contemplating invisible forces:

Time's bones are brittle
and the cold bath house in a deplorable state.
Insurance for longhorn beetle not paid.
The cuckoo calls from a large saucepan.
Under a thinned sky we dip
into sweetness of overripe fruit.
The self-analytical shadows pass
over the spirit level's blind eye.

The poems track the interior...

The great works of world literature contribute to our understanding of history and humanity. The Nobel Prize for literature recognizes modern classics and the efforts of authors to bridge gaps among different countries, cultures, and time periods.List of Nobel laureates, their Prize motivations and Nobel Lectures: 2006 - Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures; Nobel Lecture: My Father's Suitcase; 2007 - Doris Lessing (UK) that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism,...

The great works of world literature contribute to our understanding of history and humanity. The Nobel Prize for literature recognizes modern classics and the efforts of authors to bridge gaps among different countries, cultures, and time periods. List of Nobel laureates, their Prize motivations and Nobel Lectures: 2006 - Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) "who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"; Nobel Lecture: My Father's Suitcase; 2007 - Doris Lessing (UK) "that epicist of the female experience, who with...