Modern Woman Wadih Saadeh Verity continually rearranges reality (that

Verity continually rearranges reality (that is

and each date acts as a kind of permission for Mayröcker to pour in everything from notes on doctor’s visits to gorgeously structured elegies to obsessively repeating fragments of memory that act upon the whole like bits of recurring melody

Inger Christensen (trans

Like the late work of Cézanne

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Modern Woman Wadih Saadeh Verity continually rearranges reality (thatEdith Sdergran Sdergrans daring, avant garde work outraged many of her Finland Swedish contemporaries who clung to traditional literary sensibilities. Through dynamic symbolism and fluid logic, the poems comprising her first collection fundamentally questioned early twentieth century notions of what poetry is and what it can do. Something like this has never been heard before, noted critic and fellow Finland Swedish poet Hagar Olsson about her work.