accusing the samtidspoesi to be, doesn’t make sense, has been popular for generations to come. However, as the lyrical invective, it is, nevertheless, one of the midrange. Poetry is, after all, can be misunderstood in so many ways.
he Vikgrens most recent collection of poems is a good example of this. It is less than a single complete, coherent sentence. Yet the reading experience is both immediate and enjoyable. ”Materialvägensägen,” is to understand in a more conscious, meaningful ways.
there are still a sufficient number of signal words, in order that you may know what is at stake. ”Avvecklingskommun”, ”Mountain”, ”falling real wages”, ”cracking”, ”ödetomten”, ”kommunkassan”, ”inandnings ” well …” the Scene is the northern glesbygdsdöd.
Let it dry? This is the last thing this book is. In the prose assembly sings, and twirls it in the language of the maelstrom of the regional lingo, who kraftuttryck, and gallows humor.
Materialvägensägen”.
”the Term ’materialvägen’”, – informs förlagstexten, ”will be the path that the railroad workers walked up in the building of the railroad through the counties of Norrbotten and Swedish Lapland.” Instead of the proud, great Swedish railway railroad workers with super-human endurance, and one frejdighet went through the country, anspelas here, on the workers ‘ own paths and stories. But, obviously, this is the poem at least as much about the recent past, the extraction of resources, settlement, and exploitation, all of which is contained in the shadow.
It looks like the incomprehensibility of the Vikgrens of the poem becomes, then, most of the other planes. It is as much against the local rappakaljan that the actual alienation of the avvecklingserfarenheten. It’s bureaucratic, and that the dialect is mixed, in a desperate språkflöde.
but in his early writings, after his debut in 2002, exploring the Swedish countryside from a different utblickspunkter, often in the vernacular language, audible in the background. In recent years, the Vikgrens of poetry has been less specific, more minimal and introspective. ”Materialvägensägen indicates, therefore, a kind of return to this land, and, above all, a passion for muntlighet.
It’s as if something is falling into place in the Vikgrens writing of this book. A ”legend” is, as well as Vikgrens of the poem as elements of history, testimony, and geography. The music is excellent. The whole of the book is as melancholy as a pleasurable and adventure in the various språkkulturer that it can occupy, and the condition of a site. ”Materialvägensägen” is very likely to be one of the most original and the English literature is going to be on offer this year.
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