Samma, mamma

Addressed to a mother lost in 2021, these poems refuse comfort or resolution and let mourning repeat itself as it does in life. Many rhyme and borrow from pop songs; one section is a formal sonnet crown. The speaker, newly a parent, wonders how she can manage motherhood with no mother to lean on. The dead woman returns in her loveliness and kindness, her failings too, surrounded by ordinary household objects.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

71 pages in the original

First published

2024 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

33 when first published

ISBN

9789100803810 (original)