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Ann Jäderlund

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And the sea gave back the dead. Those who had been thrown into it. But

And the sea gave back the dead. Those who had been thrown into it. But
not that which had been killed in them. The beheaded got their
heads and souls back. And those who had chopped each other’s
hands off had got them back. And the devil who had tricked them
was burned on a stick. And he who had not been
recorded in the book of life was now forever. Recorded in it.

© Translation: 2014, Pamela Robertson-Pearce

En de zee heeft de doden teruggegeven. Die erin waren geworpen. Maar

Och havet gav tillbaka de döda. Som hade kastats däri. Men
inte det som hade dödats i dem. De halshuggna fick tillbaka
sina huvuden och själar. Och de som hade huggit av varandra
händerna fick tillbaka dem. Och djävulen som hade lurat dem
blev uppbränd på en pinne. Och den som inte hade varit skriven
i livets bok blev nu för alltid. Inskriven däri.

© 2009, Ann Jäderlund
From: Vad hjälper det en människa om hon häller rent vatten över sig i alla sina dagar
Publisher: Albert Bonniers Förlag, Stockholm

Ann Jäderlund

Ann Jäderlund

Ann Jäderlund connects her poetry to other texts and art forms to a large extent. She uses fragments from European literature, such as ‘you died today or was it yesterday’, an echo of the opening sentence from Albert Camus’s The Stranger. Her poetry leans on psychological and philosophical concepts (for example by Freud or Hume) and she attempts to capture the slow language of Iranian films in ...

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Virgin forest with a row of figures. Testimony’s tent.

I look at a leaf and attach my hope

Turning myself easily. It is not enclosed.

WHY ARE WE NOT IN PARADISE?

When life passes away. Each heavily

And the sea gave back the dead. Those who had been thrown into it. But

That which is in the water. But is not

That is all the thoughts of the heads. When one

Everything there is alike. One

The self in the sun and the self in the human.

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And the sea gave back the dead. Those who had been thrown into it. But

And the sea gave back the dead. Those who had been thrown into it. But
not that which had been killed in them. The beheaded got their
heads and souls back. And those who had chopped each other’s
hands off had got them back. And the devil who had tricked them
was burned on a stick. And he who had not been
recorded in the book of life was now forever. Recorded in it.

© 2014, Pamela Robertson-Pearce
From: Vad hjälper det en människa om hon häller rent vatten över sig i alla sina dagar

And the sea gave back the dead. Those who had been thrown into it. But

And the sea gave back the dead. Those who had been thrown into it. But
not that which had been killed in them. The beheaded got their
heads and souls back. And those who had chopped each other’s
hands off had got them back. And the devil who had tricked them
was burned on a stick. And he who had not been
recorded in the book of life was now forever. Recorded in it.

© 2014, Pamela Robertson-Pearce

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