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Gathering three books into one, the collection starts with a world still being made, which asks each of us to carry on the work. It continues with the unruly freedom some composers, painters and poets find near the end of their lives, and closes with forms of resurrection. A painting by Egon Schiele shows him rising from his grave; the poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz answers the silence imposed on her by the church; the war correspondent Marie Colvin, killed near Homs, carries on through her colleagues. Throughout, life keeps pushing up through the mud of war like grass turning green.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

270 pages in the original

First published

2021 by Norstedts

Author's age

91 when first published

ISBN

9789113115276 (original)