Job

The biblical story of Job runs through these poems: a human being's struggle against life's cruelty and against dying, and the path towards making peace. The speaker's inner drama after a loss mixes with glimpses of daily life in a flat in Malmö, while the act of writing itself becomes a battle in which language both loses reality and captures it, verse that composes itself as it goes.

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About the book

Form

Poetry

Length

55 pages in the original

Set in

Sweden

First published

2005 by Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion

Author's age

39 when first published

ISBN

9789171397102 (original)