The Ocean

Göran Sonnevi · 2005 CE · Poem · Nordic · Contemporary

A book-length sequence by the Swedish poet, moving between public politics, private grief and the shore of the Baltic. It carries the long late style of Sonnevi's career and won the Nordic Council Literature Prize.

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