{"product_id":"the-star-by-my-head-poets-from-sweden-9781571314611","title":"The Star by My Head: Poets from Sweden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished in partnership with the Poetry Foundation, this breathtaking anthology features eight of Sweden's most highly regarded poets.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIlya Kaminsky\u003c\/b\u003e is the Director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute at the Poetry Foundation. A Russian born poet and translator, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eDancing in Odessa\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Ecco Anthology of International Poetry.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in San Diego. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMalena Mörling\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two collections of poems, \u003ci\u003eAstoria\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOcean Avenue.\u003c\/i\u003e She has received a Rona Jaffe Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Foundation Fellowship. She is on the faculty of the Low-Residency MFA program at New England College, and is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonas Ellerström\u003c\/b\u003e is a Swedish author, translator, publisher, and critic, born in Southern Sweden, now living in Stockholm. He has published poetry and essay collections in Swedish and has translated many volumes of poetry, including the works of William Blake, Arthur Rimbaud, and T.S. Eliot.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50515809403154,"sku":"9781571314611","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d89793e4-f16c-4e1a-8e87-4de8a341f732.jpg?v=1731012554","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-star-by-my-head-poets-from-sweden-9781571314611","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}