Wild Bouquet

by Harry Martinson; translated by William Jay Smith and Leif Sjöberg

Price 78 pages, $10.95 cloth

ISBN 0-933532-48-2

He writes with profound empathy...in poem after poem Martinson invests his trees, brooks, his butterflies, cabbages and everything else in nature with its own peculiar sentient being. As for the translations into English, only the highest praise is due William Jay Smith and Leif Sjöberg. -- David Ignatow

This is a remarkable collection of poems by one of the major poets of this century. Skillfully and lovingly translated, this book is a gift from Smith and Sjöberg. -- Virginia Quarterly

The team of translators of this Martinson volume come with excellent credentials and a proper reverence for their task. This book is the result of a decade's work and is obviously a labor of love. -- Scandinavian Studies

The result of a decade's work, these translations of Nobel Prize-winning poet Harry Martinson by William Jay Smith and Leif Sjöberg are dedicated to W.H. Auden, who contributed to the project. These nature poems will transport many readers back to the intimate discoveries of childhood and approach that state Martinson said could only be reached "through solitude and silence."