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Poetry, writing and translations by K-M Skalkenæs

  • English poetry
    • 30 after thoughts (2021)
    • divisive / dismissive / missive (2018)
    • Light Requires Darkness (2018)
    • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes (2017)
    • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn (2014)
    • What Bits of Peace My Life’s Ensured (2014)
    • Poems Inspired by Paintings (2014)
  • Danish poetry
    • verden værker (2026)
    • De spor man efterlader sig (2017)
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    • Edith Södergran
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      • The September Lyre
      • The Rose Altar
      • The Shadow of the Future
      • The Land Which Is Not
    • Gustaf Munch-Petersen
      • naked human
      • The Lowest Country
      • Towards Jerusalem
      • Nineteen Poems
    • Edvard Søderberg
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This, contrary to Södergran’s first collection, was published upon demand in 1918.

The main topic of this collection was her self-perception, coming to term with her illness as well as herself as a literary figure.

Moreover, this is the collection where it was first becoming obvious that she counted Nietzsche among her influencers.

Category: The September Lyre

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: Strong Hyacinths

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

You won’t get me to believe in disgusting flies– revenge and selfish desires.I believe in strong hyacinths dripping ancient juice. Lilies heal and cleanse like my own power.You won’t get me to believe in disgusting fliesspreading stench and contagion.I believe […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: Discovery

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Your love darkens my star –the moon rises in my life.My hand is not at home in yours.Your hand is desire –mine is longing.

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: Dusk

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

The night comes great with its flossy beardand smiles broadly to all the halfway veiled.Colossal and shapeless all the shapes of the park grow outof the silent lilacs in the dusk.The pretty lilacs have sleepy ears,they dream that the sun […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: To a Young Woman

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

Never did a lusty glance deceive.Hold the man’s heart between your inexperienced child-fingers,draw the man’s flames into the icy chamber of your eyes!You believe in love like you believe in Heaven.He shall give you his heart, a realm and all […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: Triumph To Exist

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

What do I fear? I am part of infinity.I am part of the great force of the All,a lonely world in millions of worlds,a first degree star that is extinguished last.Triumph to live, triumph to breathe, triumph to exist!Triumph to feel […]

  • Edith Södergran
  • The September Lyre
12 Jan, 202012

Edith Södergran: Introductory Remark

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

That my writing is poetry none can deny, that it’s on verses I won’t postulate. I have attempted to give certain reluctant poems a rhythm and have thereby observed that I only own the skill of images and words in […]

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