The Rib Cities

Eva Ström · 2002 CE · Poem · Nordic · Contemporary

A Swedish collection by a physician-poet in which the body, its fragility and its illnesses become a map of cities and of memory. The poems move between clinical observation and a pared, intimate lyric. Awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2003.

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