Table of Contents for Sonnevi, G.; Lesser, R., ed. and trans.: A Child Is Not a Knife: Selected Poems of Göran Sonnevi.

A Child Is Not a Knife:
Selected Poems of Göran Sonnevi
Göran Sonnevi
Translated and edited by Rika Lesser

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Acknowledgments
Goran Sonnevi: An Introduction
Sonnevi: A Translator's Retrospective Montage
Koster, 1973 3
Whose life? you asked 15
the hyacinth 17
Dyron; 1981 18
Summer has turned now And I go 21
Seeing your smile 23
Mourning Cloak 25
Words have no limits 30
I said to you 33
The twilight of spring rain 37
You say I'm naive 38
You, who say yes to 39
Demon colors 40
For S***, 1971 43
There is life that / will not give up 45
You sense the light's fragrance 46
The wound bleeding 48
A Child Is Not a Knife 49
Breaking up: that large feeling 52
in the meadow by the shore 57
Incalculable: the heart 59
Death is no more 60
The narrow shaft 61
Fagerfjall, Tjorn, 1986; For Pentti 62
Aby, Oland; 1982 64
what / do I find / then 67
From the cliff at the foot of Skull Mountain 70
New Year's 1986 73
The center of unheard-of, of enormous hopes 75
Burge, Oja; 1989 79
Notes 87
Swedish Contents and Bibliographical Citations 93