Tre vägar

Three journeys on foot, in prose that sometimes breaks into verse. One leads towards a spellbinding work of art and away from mourning. In another, a poem that was destroyed prompts a return to the suburb where she grew up, in the company of Almqvist, the poet Gennady Aygi and the sculptor Louise Bourgeois. The third unfolds on fragile coastlines, a recurring setting in her work. Real places and free association mingle as the pieces consider how landscapes feed art, what is kept and lost in memory, the force of words, a mother, those still alive and those gone, and how to carry on. Personal history and metamorphosis go hand in hand.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

164 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction (assigned by AI)

First published

2013 by Wahlström & Widstrand

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9789146224693 (original)