17 article(s) translated from Swedish

1956

by Gunnar Harding

So much of this happened in basements, in thick woolen sweaters, in B major but with strong passages in minor. On the outskirts. That’s where we were from but our thoughts had wings like the pigeons…...

Translated from Swedish by Roger Greenwald bilingual version

From “Pol Pot’s Smile”

by Peter Fröberg Idling

1 The road through the landscape. You have to drive well below the speed limit of 70 kph unless you already know the wheeltracks, the potholes, the curves. Roads in Cambodia aren’t much different.…...

Translated from Swedish by Silvester Mazzarella

A Weeknight Before the Turn of the Century

by Klas Östergren

It was a rainy autumn night in Stockholm, a night in the middle of the week. Feeling a need to further specify the moment in time, I probably would have added: "a weeknight just before the turn of the…...

Translated from Swedish by Tiina Nunnally

Puberty

by Gunnar Harding

     was it at the Palace of Sport in 1952? a whole school class                           …...

Translated from Swedish by Roger Greenwald

(“Lengua”: María Zambrano)

by Magnus William-Olsson

The word's dawn is meaning's night I walk in springtime. The wild, strange, violent spring. Birdsong. The beginning of everything, verdure that seems to levitate. Death with a cig in its long holder…...

Translated from Swedish by Rika Lesser

(“Analogia”)

by Magnus William-Olsson

This poem could be a face Not the right one, but the true one. Analogies deal with relationships that hold. It Speaks. The poem's similarity to the face consists, among other things, in the poet's…...

Translated from Swedish by Rika Lesser

(“Parousía”)

by Magnus William-Olsson

Our time, why shouldn't I go backward into the moment with my trembling preferences, my restless desire, my thought's uttermost solitude? When I blink I usually see my mother, sitting on the sofa…...

Translated from Swedish by Rika Lesser

from “The Moment for Pindar Is a Small Space in Time”

by Magnus William-Olsson

(Analogia) This poem could be a face Not the right one, but the true one. Analogies deal with relationships that hold. It Speaks. The poem's similarity to the face consists, among other things, in…...

Translated from Swedish by Rika Lesser

Far from Here

by Harry Martinson

I want to send a dream far from here. The swallows fly high there. Perhaps your wheat ripens and through the yellow oceans of rye a slow humming sound of bread can be heard. This is a world of water and…...

Translated from Swedish by Lars Nordstrom

Twenty-two Things Not to Be Trusted

by Håkan Sandell

Twenty-two things not to be trusted: not night-old ice, not a winter in Skåne with the ice shining and as yet untrodden to a confidence inspiring terra firma. Not winter in Skåne, not spring…...

Translated from Swedish by Bill Coyle

The Northwest Express

by Gunnar Harding

to my wife and to Blaise Cendrars even in our sleep there are cables between us. we are coupled to each other like the railway cars on their way to the sea outside the window Holland a white van on a winter's…...

Translated from Swedish by Roger Greenwald

Prelude

by Tomas Tranströmer

Waking up is a jump, a skydive from the dream. Free of the smothering whirl the traveler sinks toward morning's green zone. Things start to flare. He perceives—in the trembling lark's position—the…...

Translated from Swedish by Rika Lesser

Heart’s Desire

by Willy Kyrklund

Eliza 812 is a psychiatric computer. All female psychiatric computers are named Eliza, in accordance with a fine old tradition. All males are named Higgins. Eliza is a research project, and her main objective…...

Translated from Swedish by Paul Norlén

The Raffle Ticket

by Jonas Karlsson

The moment Patrik Ohlsson unfolded the raffle ticket and saw the number for the first time, he noticed the intriguing ambiguity. "Come and look at this, Linn," he shouted to his daughter. Linn was standing…...

Translated from Swedish by Laurie Thompson

from Splendorville

by Ellen Mattson

Splendorville is set in the 1920s and written from the perspective of a youngish woman, Dr. Esparto, who lost her mother early and was brought up by a tribe in the desert of North Africa where her archaeologist…...

Translated from Swedish by Sarah Death

From “Mozart’s Third Brain”, CIV

by Göran Sonnevi

I lay a light stone on my father's grave, a gray stone on the gray stone Hadn't planned to, it just happened Then I think: Now you have made him a Jew But then I realize that this is about one…...

Translated from Swedish by Rika Lesser

from Mozart’s Third Brain

by Göran Sonnevi

LV Democracy's secret In free, general elections, with secret ballots There, too, is music's concealment, its inaccessibility, eye to eye Where…...

Translated from Swedish by Rika Lesser

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