On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems

Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellerström. If there is, in this world, a possibility for an entirely free and pure poetics, a state of writing from an unbounded spontaneity carried as if entwined with the present moment, then that might have been the poetics of Edith Södergran. She once wrote: "There are words I have never heard, but I need those words. Perhaps your own heart—could give you or tell you those words. But have you ever believed your own heart?"