Eva Ström
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The animals felt uneasy sooner than the humans did.
They wandered in huge herds out into the sunset.
The white raven flappef its wings.
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Can you hear the singing from inside the church?
Who is singing? Cracked voices, old women?
IS someone lying in the coffin? Has it been emptied,plundered?
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The printing ink has disappeared
it stains no hands
The tourists at the cathedral
take out their Scottish money
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Mother says that it's a memory
and I can have it
I can have her memory
and stitch it to mine, it has frayed edges
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Eva Ström (born 1947 in Lidingö, Stockholm County) is a Swedish lyricist, novelist, biographer and literary critic. She made her literary debut in 1977 with the poetry collection Den brinnande zeppelinaren. Ström trained as a physician and worked in the medical profession 1974-1988 before becoming a full-time author. She was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2003 for the poetry collection Revbensstäderna ("The Rib Cities").In January 2010, she was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. She is the mother of Karin Ström.)
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The enclosed city
The animals felt uneasy sooner than the humans did.
They wandered in huge herds out into the sunset.
The white raven flappef its wings.
The court was filled by the friends of both victim and murderer.
They had all taken time off from school.
Small Japanese women determined the chicken's sex.
For the sake of egg production all the male chicks were killed.
They hung in surprise for a moment on the conveyour belt
before beeing ground down in the rubbish-grinder.
The eighteen-year-old murderer drew a comic strip of the murder.
Both he and the victim were turned into match-stick-men.
The girl lad no sex but a rectangular skirt.
The throat is bare. The city besieged.
The goat with the gold teeth slaughtered.
The lorries are trying in vain to approach the enclosed city.
Translation by Robin Fulton
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She is also the gifted translator.of Shakspeare’s 154Sonnets each with a perceptiveccommentary. In her preface to the published work she writes about the mysteries surrounding the Sonnets and our ignorante about their subjects, the dedication to WH and the transformation of the Italian sonnet for tothe Shakespearesn form. Eva Ström is a truly remarkable poet and lierary commentator.