Chickweed Wintergreen: Selected Poems

by Harry Martinson

Book Overview

Harry Martinson (1904-78) sailed the oceans from 1920 to 1927 as an escape from an unhappy childhood in rural southwest Sweden. Returning to his native tracts, he devoted himself to writing and eventually became one of the best-known authors of his time, his books appealing widely both to academics and to the general reader. His election to the Swedish Academy in 1949 was seen as a gesture towards a generation of more or less self-educated working-class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852248874
• ISBN13: 9781852248871
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"