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Runoja - Couverture souple

Stenbäck, Lars

 
9789378419195: Runoja

Synopsis

A dawn over a rural valley, moonlight on the sea, a storm beyond a solitary room: the natural world continually meets the inner life in this Finnish poetry collection. Love, friendship and longing unfold beside separation and grief, while forests, flowers, birds and changing seasons register shifts of feeling and spiritual reflection. Predominantly lyric in form, the poems move between intimate utterance and broader meditations on home, memory and belonging. Songs, hymns, prayers and elegies widen the collection's range, giving private emotion devotional and ceremonial expression. Christian faith offers consolation in encounters with death and mourning, and directs attention towards divine care, moral duty, resurrection and eternal life. Elsewhere, attachment to Finland emerges through native shores, service and national memory. Refrains, invocations and direct speech lend individual poems their own cadence, while varied stanzaic forms allow lament, praise and commemoration to assume distinct voices. From a cottage and a boat to a graveyard at night and formal gatherings, the settings place inward experience against recognisable landscapes and occasions. The recurring sea, mountains, spring growth and storm imagery connect nature poetry with love and longing poems, elegiac verse and expressions of faith. Personal sorrow can open into prayer; remembrance can become public address; and the idea of home can carry emotional, spiritual and national meaning. This book was out of print for decades and is now republished by Alpha Editions. It has been restored for today's and future generations. This edition is not just a reprint - it's a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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