The Star by My Head: Poets from Sweden, Paperback/Malena Morling

Published in partnership with the Poetry Foundation, ``The Star By My Head`` is a breathtaking anthology of poems featuring eight of Sweden's most highly regarded poets, including Nobel Prize winner Tomas Transtromer. From Edith Sodergran to Gunnar Ekelof to Nobel Prize-winning Tomas Transtromer, Sweden has long been home to a rich and luminous poetic tradition, notable for refreshing openness, striking honesty, and a rare transcendence that seems to spring from a keen attention to the natural world. With poems that span from the beginnings of Modernism to present day, ``The Star By My Head: Eight Swedish Poets`` is an essential bilingual volume that offers stark, exquisite translations by internationally acclaimed poets and translators Malena Morling and Jonas Ellerstrom. Published in partnership with the Poetry Foundation, ``The Star By My Head`` is the premiere American anthology of 20th- and 21st-century Swedish poetry in English translation.