G U A R D I N G T H E A I R
S E L E C T E D P O E M S O F G U N N A R H A R D I N G
Translated from the Swedish and edited by
Roger Greenwald
CONTENTS
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Introduction Author’s Prefaces from Flowers for James Dean (1969) The Northwest ExpressIt Is Evening When You Turn Back The Train in the Background Is the Rock Island Line Captain Blood We All Saw Him The Blockade Is Broken, But to What End? On the Way to Little Big Horn Rebel without a Cause from The Eagle Has Landed (1970) 20 July 1969 – 1944Vietnam Rockets Puberty Für Janet Persson Janet Persson noch einmal Umbrella I Decide to Take Up the Battle against Bonnier’s Literary Magazine from Search Line (1972) The Confused Teacher of the DeafSearch Line Grandpa and the Little Old Ladies in Leksand September Europe – A Winter Journey from Ballads (1975) Cape FarewellAn Evening at Home with William Blake Lasse-Maja at Carlsten Fortress Grandma Grandpa and the Memory of Jenny Wilkas Danny’s Dream The Owl The Black Death Jazz Poems (from various volumes) Buddy Bolden’s Original Jass & Ragtime BandDavenport Blues Bunk Johnson in New Iberia Winter Tour from Back to You (1980) Star-goalieThe National Hospital, Oslo, September 1976 from Gaslight (1983) Blood PoisoningPersephone Åkersbodarna, July 1981 Créole History-painting from The Star-diver (1987) The Star-diverThe Gate Coin Adonais Für Elise Guarding the Air from My Winterland (1990) DecayedThe Night Wanderer Evergreen Anamorphosis The Voyage The Flute Player / Sculpture Like Stars Half-quenched in Mists of Silver Dew Two of Linnaeus’s Apprentices Chasing an Admiral Butterfly Birdsong My Winterland from The Main Stage (1995) The Figure SkaterThe Palace of King Minos Sketch (Skagen, Denmark) The Golden Helmet The Main Stage The People Who Envisioned the Garden Cities The Academy of Music The Last Summer Holiday Walk through Autumn’s Beauty Estate Inventory from Parlor Music (2001) Dante Gabriel RossettiParadiso The Doppelgangers The Perfect City The Birth Larded with Sweet Flowers In the Kingdom of Death Pre-Raphaelite Dance The Menagerie Imperfect Tense The Window Open to the River Museum The House Where the People in This Story Were Still Living The Garden of Proserpine The Daydream The House of Life A Day That Wasn’t His Rossetti Sleepless in the Park from The Burning Child (2003) Moment in TibbleThe Wandering Shoemaker Watercolors Night in Tibble Poem That Starts with a Line from Fats Waller Embers Return Visit, October Triptych for Nils Kölare Image after Image after Image The Burning Child 1940 1941 (Judarn Lake) 1944 (Beckomberga) 1948 1949 (The Erica Foundation’s Institute for Child Psychology) 1951 1952 1953 1954 1956 1957 (Metamorphoses) 1958 (Miss Setterdahl’s Art School) 1962 (K4 in Umeå) You Sleep More Deeply than the Sea Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten Departure Infectious Disease Ward, Sundsvall Hospital Tegnérgatan Rugosa Roses Epilogue Notes
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