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![]() More precisely, it is an anti-epic: heroic connotations are inappropriate for a work better described as an elegiac song cycle working variations on the disappearance of the human species, a premonitory mourning ritual for Earth" - Geoffrey O'Brien, The New York Review of Books (.) Aniara is an epic of extinction, conceived at a moment when extinction had become to seem not only possible but perhaps imminent. "The more recent translation by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg is more faithful to Martinson's formal schemes and is said to be more accurate and somewhat more complete, but the MacDiarmid-Schubert version is more persuasive as English poetry. ![]() ![]()
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