Lars Erik Einar Gustavsson Biography
Lars Erik Einar Gustavsson (17 May 1936 – 3 April 2016) was a Swedish poet, novelist, and scholar.
Gustafsson was born in Västerås, completed his secondary education at the Västerås Gymnasium and continued to Uppsala University; he received his licentiate degree in 1960 and was awarded his PhD in theoretical philosophy in 1978. He lived in Austin, Texas until 2003, and then returned to Sweden. From 1983 he served as a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught philosophy and creative writing, until May 2006, when he retired. In 1981 Gustafsson converted to Judaism.
One day life stands
gently smiling like a girl
suddenly on the far side of the stream
and asks
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All these strange
small objects
that come to us in the course of our lives
each one from its own location
...
Old coins and bills
Including a One dollar 1810
issued by Mechanical Bank in Saint Louis
An amusing beer mug with a red nose
...
Actually it was only four short winters.
With Thomas Mann and Hesse
and Greek grammar.
And the Skandia movie theatre.
...
When the soft darkness of August
suddenly closed in
it was as if the lake down there
quickened its pulse, breathed otherwise
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