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 JUHANI AHVENJÄRVI
CLAES ANDERSSON EVA-STINA BYGGMÄSTAR TOMAS MIKAEL BÄCK AGNETA ENCKELL MARTIN ENCKELL TUA FORSSTRÖM PENTTI HOLAPPA JOUNI INKALA RIINA KATAJAVUORI JYRKI KIISKINEN TOMI KONTIO JUKKA KOSKELAINEN LEEVI LEHTO HEIDI LIEHU RAKEL LIEHU LAURI OTONKOSKI MARKKU PAASONEN ANNUKKA PEURA MIRKKA REKOLA HENRIKA RINGBOM PENTTI SAARITSA HELENA SINERVO EIRA STENBERG ANNI SUMARI ILPO TIIHONEN SIRKKA TURKKA MERJA VIROLAINEN KJELL WESTÖ (ANDERS HED) |
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RAKEL LIEHU (b. 1939) has written twelve collections of poetry and three novels. In the nineteen seventies, Rakel Liehu was regarded as a rare neoromanticist who developed religious poetry in a more philosophical direction. Her collection, Kubisseja (Cubisms, 1992) was the beginning of something new: it is a violent cubistic burst towards a new expression and joy of language. The next three collections, murehtimatta ! smaragdinen (grieve not ! emerald, 1993), Readymade (1995) and Skorpionin sydän (The Scorpio’s Heart) took this line even deeper.
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Obediently,
they snap a twin picture
simultaneously,
preserve in my brain
the sun’s sovereign
movement
and
in a café
the dizzying steam
of my espresso,
as full of wonderment
as the flowering vine
of the Milky Way ---
And you
who also cast a look, have a conundrum
and a pastry,
“Of Theodicy?” you ask
“But perhaps talk about suffering and justice”
I spoon my own pastry
of almonds, effervescing,
“perhaps such talk is in vain ---
God could, after all, be for instance a child
The only thing certain is that all words belong to the
sun ---“
“But is the sun?
Can you prove that?”
with a groan you stab your fork into your napoleon
pastry
face a sun
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  Brains, tenderly scooped
My Child My Almond Eye In a room with a number Earth’s hot womb brought to a boil but when the smallest crown prin... Runway's shoulders? Deep If everything is born out of rej... We were born Wind strikes fire from grass But I We didn’t desire to come here Obediently
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