Modern WomanEdith Sdergran Sdergrans daring, avant garde work outraged many of her Finland Swedish contemporaries who clung to traditional literary sensibilities. Through dynamic symbolism and fluid logic, the poems comprising her first collection fundamentally questioned early twentieth century notions of what poetry is and what it can do. Something like this has never been heard before, noted critic and fellow Finland Swedish poet Hagar Olsson about her work.

Ze debuteerde in 1968 met ‘Ontbinding

It doesn’t mean

part antipolitical manifesto ("the war is too close / for revolution to be understood")

Here the arousal of the fragmented body is contemporary practice

” …This near-treatise by one of our major experimental poets succeeds on its own terms

Juan-Carlos Goilo

The first overview of the work of this seminal multi-disciplinary artist

in New York

A work of captivation and correction

over hoe jij groter wordt en mooier

This is the first critical edition of the complete poems

and sing myself