Potential Titles: Harry Martinson

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Accorded a time of calm, repose and quarantine - Harry Martinson "Aniara 1" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Become unclean with toxic radiation - Harry Martinson "Aniara 1" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Threaten havoc to our time and state - Harry Martinson "Aniara 1" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The part of Mars where you'd prefer to go - Harry Martinson "Aniara 1" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Will be recorded for each traveler's share - Harry Martinson "Aniara 1" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

With the disdain that beauty so easily conceives - Harry Martinson "Aniara 1" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Clear and free of interference out from Earth - Harry Martinson "Aniara 2" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Which was to sever us from Sun and Earth - Harry Martinson "Aniara 2" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Meeting with great swarms of leonids - Harry Martinson "Aniara 3" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A torus-image whose empty center we sought - Harry Martinson "Aniara 3" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And other parts less damaged could be mended - Harry Martinson "Aniara 3" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

How the solar system closed its vaulted gateway - Harry Martinson "Aniara 4" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

From all bonds and pledges of the sun - Harry Martinson "Aniara 4" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In spheres and cupolas it moved through empty spaces - Harry Martinson "Aniara 4" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Fatalists of that most recent stamp - Harry Martinson "Aniara 5" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Which only vacant spaces could have formed - Harry Martinson "Aniara 5" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

They too look down the pinnacle of fear - Harry Martinson "Aniara 5" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The iris of the eye is filled with mournful fires - Harry Martinson "Aniara 5" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A hunger-fire searching after fuel for spiritual light - Harry Martinson "Aniara 5" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Willing for us to polish off death's bitter pill - Harry Martinson "Aniara 5" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That lies outside and always far beyond - Harry Martinson "Aniara 6" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Her fish in other seas than those we now traverse - Harry Martinson "Aniara 6" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

From woods and dales in undiscovered realms - Harry Martinson "Aniara 6" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And tends to this unmoved by blandishments - Harry Martinson "Aniara 6" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In spaces without land and without coasts - Harry Martinson "Aniara 6" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Blots out the world remembered and abandoned - Harry Martinson "Aniara 7" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Rubbing dream on dream for want of something real - Harry Martinson "Aniara 8" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A multitude of black thoughts flapping through these vaults - Harry Martinson "Aniara 8" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Filled with the echoes of a prior life - Harry Martinson "Aniara 8" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Threading an outlandish void of sound - Harry Martinson "Aniara 8" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Comforts we may see but may not reach - Harry Martinson "Aniara 8" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Apathy laying between the tempests of despair - Harry Martinson "Aniara 8" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Chilly doldrum-world of dead emotion - Harry Martinson "Aniara 8" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That seeks us in the barren house of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 9" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Systems of stars hang frozen and still - Harry Martinson "Aniara 10" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Time to cherish vision in dreams - Harry Martinson "Aniara 10" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

All too far for any human mind to understand - Harry Martinson "Aniara 10" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Grains of diamond in a crystal sheath - Harry Martinson "Aniara 10" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In a massive, radiant hall of utter distance - Harry Martinson "Aniara 10" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Answering to limitless immeasurably far-outlying Hades - Harry Martinson "Aniara 10" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

For Hades harvests us at its behest - Harry Martinson "Aniara 10" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

But view their fate in the clear light of science - Harry Martinson "Aniara 11" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Buried in that giant star's dense husk - Harry Martinson "Aniara 11" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Armors that devil-star in helium and cold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 11" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The grief I'm nursing threatens to be lost - Harry Martinson "Aniara 12" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Fare with undiminished speed toward Lyra's stars - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Assumed the Mystery to have structure - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

But does not need to take the path of thought - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A little bubble in the glass of Godhead - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A gulf the depth of light-years throws its arch - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Her speed as measured by the scale of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 13" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The piquant little flam was quenched - Harry Martinson "Aniara 14" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Dwindled steadily through nuclear catastrophes - Harry Martinson "Aniara 14" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The scanty moments when we snatched our dreams - Harry Martinson "Aniara 14" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Hot times in the cellar for those who'd voted nay - Harry Martinson "Aniara 14" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In this melancholy jungle of controls - Harry Martinson "Aniara 14" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Who can order a chaos of numbers we wish we never knew - Harry Martinson "Aniara 14" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In political games of specters' peek-a-boo - Harry Martinson "Aniara 14" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Through doors that are forever whirling round - Harry Martinson "Aniara 16" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Turnstiles for the torrents of mankind - Harry Martinson "Aniara 16" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Some voices rise triumphant from the hum - Harry Martinson "Aniara 16" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Soon the time will come of cast-iron and balm - Harry Martinson "Aniara 16" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

But now the world of blessing is no more - Harry Martinson "Aniara 16" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

For here there are no depths to undertake - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

To cast an eye upon the only cloud in this cold sky - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That long hard cloud made of a white alloy - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

With cargo that the tooth of time had chewed - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Marked with hard names born of metaphor - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

From a hidden world of hostile force - Harry Martinson "Aniara 17" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Efforts at escape through flights of mind - Harry Martinson "Aniara 18" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

With one leg drowned beneath a surge of feeling - Harry Martinson "Aniara 18" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

I ranged the universe but passed it by - Harry Martinson "Aniara 18" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A rose will always wound you with its rose - Harry Martinson "Aniara 19" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A wound from utter beauty, utter burning beauty - Harry Martinson "Aniara 19" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Changed ever more into a distant star - Harry Martinson "Aniara 19" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A sun that like a cinder burns my eye - Harry Martinson "Aniara 19" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Stings more deeply when she's far away - Harry Martinson "Aniara 19" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Withholding the subtlest modulation of her beauty - Harry Martinson "Aniara 19" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Shows her everything there is of pleasure - Harry Martinson "Aniara 19" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A frank display of everything created - Harry Martinson "Aniara 19" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

So inconspicuous among the suns of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 19" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

All that we had long dreamt of receiving - Harry Martinson "Aniara 20" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Distant views of torments gone before - Harry Martinson "Aniara 20" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Hurled labyrinthine round the endless world - Harry Martinson "Aniara 20" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Good tidings, but with tracks less clear - Harry Martinson "Aniara 20" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Its light is the same light this year and every year - Harry Martinson "Aniara 20" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

But doubt is an acid that corrodes more dreams - Harry Martinson "Aniara 21" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

What bears comforts colors and resembles life - Harry Martinson "Aniara 21" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Those tears for all their authenticity were cold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 22" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Till our vainglory puts its scepter by - Harry Martinson "Aniara 24" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

No longer offering the planet violence - Harry Martinson "Aniara 25" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Gone askew in bleak tracts of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 25" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Blinded by a brightness beyond flashpoint - Harry Martinson "Aniara 26" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

So they cry out from stones one with the other - Harry Martinson "Aniara 26" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

So they cry out from stones as did Cassandra - Harry Martinson "Aniara 26" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Unto the last projecting fire and death - Harry Martinson "Aniara 26" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

To beat down and desolate the heart's own treasury - Harry Martinson "Aniara 26" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Of dreams to live upon in cold and evil years - Harry Martinson "Aniara 26" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

What use is there in breaking the enchantment - Harry Martinson "Aniara 27" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And I take up the ballad of cast-iron - Harry Martinson "Aniara 27" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Her entire existence was created to sing the praise of dance - Harry Martinson "Aniara 27" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

As against a cloud of distant compact shame - Harry Martinson "Aniara 28" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Begged deliverance from her vision - Harry Martinson "Aniara 28" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Had beheld the granite's white-hot weeping - Harry Martinson "Aniara 28" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A jolt of terror pitched into our horde - Harry Martinson "Aniara 29" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Now came a time of bitterest discontent - Harry Martinson "Aniara 30" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Sent its storm of dark rays from the back of yonder - Harry Martinson "Aniara 30" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Sought through mystic rigmaroles to magnify his station - Harry Martinson "Aniara 30" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And uttered devil-dictums to our souls - Harry Martinson "Aniara 30" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Until the bowls of fury where depleted - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In the language most of them were taught - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A blind-man buff of words avoiding words - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Playing blind amid the clarity of cosmic mind - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Which constitutes the lowest reach of time in spirit's day - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Was of a hundred minds in its opinion - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

While the bridge between us stayed an empty place - Harry Martinson "Aniara 31" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

To space and eye within the dwelling of infinity - Harry Martinson "Aniara 32" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

On each solution a mystery waits to leap - Harry Martinson "Aniara 33" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Where the shadow of my sorrow sheds its dark - Harry Martinson "Aniara 34" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Over me her radiant thoughts are poured - Harry Martinson "Aniara 34" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Jostling one another for the eerie deserts of eternity - Harry Martinson "Aniara 35" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

To give us everything that mirrors can - Harry Martinson "Aniara 36" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Eight thousand inches' worth of false dimension - Harry Martinson "Aniara 36" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

To train our eyes from our trajectory - Harry Martinson "Aniara 36" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Heaven's host in dance reflected in an eightfold radiance - Harry Martinson "Aniara 36" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Blaze trails to mirror canyons and to mirror vales - Harry Martinson "Aniara 36" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Desire and piety crowd into one place - Harry Martinson "Aniara 37" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And pleads in gentle whisper to the deity's bier - Harry Martinson "Aniara 37" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

While poised to devastate her reputation - Harry Martinson "Aniara 38" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In secrecy were ripening their doubt - Harry Martinson "Aniara 38" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Faithful servant on the farm of numbers - Harry Martinson "Aniara 39" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The course dictated by the law of conic sections - Harry Martinson "Aniara 39" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Captives to the void in which we fell - Harry Martinson "Aniara 39" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Lifted up into the cosmic field - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Used and misused like things without a soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In these last rations of the Martian cold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

On the soul's moors the winds of spring are blowing - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A swirling pillar made of torrid gases - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That mirror where the truth must be confessed - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That springtime nature perished of a wind - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That plunged at typhoon strength among the mountains - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That torrent shattered and made meaningless - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

With rational surveillance as its cause - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Spun round the edges of the cesium quarry - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That doesn't come from daydreams in the skies - Harry Martinson "Aniara 40: The Space-Hand's Tale" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Suppose that in our arms cold died - Harry Martinson "Aniara 42: Libidel's Song at the Mirror" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Dismissed the questions flung out in distress - Harry Martinson "Aniara 43" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Power to shrug off conscience when it stings - Harry Martinson "Aniara 43" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

With steadfast clarity and no redactions - Harry Martinson "Aniara 43" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The gulfs to which the others were consigned - Harry Martinson "Aniara 43" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A crowd of thoughts that might have saved us - Harry Martinson "Aniara 44" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Were hung up in oblivions cabinet - Harry Martinson "Aniara 44" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

To calculate our minimum of hope - Harry Martinson "Aniara 45" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

On perfection's ice the very act of thinking takes a spill - Harry Martinson "Aniara 45" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Pulverizes objects of our thought - Harry Martinson "Aniara 45" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Mind's icy sneer of bitter barrenness - Harry Martinson "Aniara 45" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A number-group philosopher and mystic of the aleph-number school - Harry Martinson "Aniara 47" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That chance and miracle must have one source - Harry Martinson "Aniara 47" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Blazoned our confinement gold with fire - Harry Martinson "Aniara 48" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Sent the heavens to the heart's abode - Harry Martinson "Aniara 48" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Changing every word from smoke to splendor - Harry Martinson "Aniara 48" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A child of nights in thousands with no glimpse of day - Harry Martinson "Aniara 48" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Cold darkness came and settled in forever - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

When the summer paid in full its debt - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

All golden things cast into summer's grave - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Hearing everything I loved vanish in a dark and icy wind - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Outvoiced only by a sudden burst of fearsome thunderclaps - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

I learned to read the braille of mighty screams - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

But stubborn wills persisted in their plan - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

All struggling for heaven is a struggling for joy - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Lead and gather those consumed with wrath and greed - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Darkening its advance with flags of vengeance - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

To perceive the true as a natural desire that can be realized - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Why have executioners not vanished yet? - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

How hard not to be thinking in our silence - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And practices of grace, how hard to grasp - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

To which no fairies steal with magic staves - Harry Martinson "Aniara 49: The Blind Woman" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Whom sensations of light-years united - Harry Martinson "Aniara 50: The Arch-Comic Sandon" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The sun had averted its blaze from the bands of deported - Harry Martinson "Aniara 50: The Arch-Comic Sandon" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A beautiful gold leaf upon a choice branch - Harry Martinson "Aniara 51" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In aphroditic surreality to be preserved forever - Harry Martinson "Aniara 52: Shards from Mima" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Preserved forever uncorroded by time and salt - Harry Martinson "Aniara 52: Shards from Mima" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A spear that traveled through the Universe - Harry Martinson "Aniara 53: The Spear" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Miniature Edens where nothing is ragged and torn - Harry Martinson "Aniara 54: Chefone's Garden" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

How dragons order their lives, how they manage and act - Harry Martinson "Aniara 54: Chefone's Garden" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A nova's flare from out the coils of Berenice's hair - Harry Martinson "Aniara 55" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Although clairvoyant, she saw no salvation - Harry Martinson "Aniara 56" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

When springtimes of a thousand years turned winter without end - Harry Martinson "Aniara 56" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Which the strain and torment of the dark inspire - Harry Martinson "Aniara 58" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Worship Light as concept and as flame - Harry Martinson "Aniara 58" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Rises at the altar like a kindled spark - Harry Martinson "Aniara 58" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

To be blinded in the skin by a god of light - Harry Martinson "Aniara 58" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Those immersed the deepest in recanting - Harry Martinson "Aniara 59" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

When good excuses end their counterfeits - Harry Martinson "Aniara 59" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Burst by the breakers from the land of death - Harry Martinson "Aniara 59" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Will have reposed a thousand years in sand - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

When by the dark of war its dawn was scattered - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The thousand-year empire was about to see the light - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The sun began a transit through the long night - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That racked our world with ice-age winds' unsparing song - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Snowfall from the nebula compounding winter seasons into eons - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Bedded down for sixteen thousand winters - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

With odds and ends of science left behind - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Waiting for the sun to mend the ravages in nature's forests - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Nature's forests and the realms of mind - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Among the wheels and wires of crude machines - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Rising every evening in the skies of night - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Dark with its widow's veil that hid the galaxy - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Moving off, diminishing against the sky's expanse - Harry Martinson "Aniara 60" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A mirage from walls that shut out an intolerable space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Screened off from those unthinkable abysses - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

With shafts that stung and needles' piercing lights - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A little offering from within of dreams - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Giving nothing to us but their blankness - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And Humpty Dumpty nobody can heal - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Magic arts in truth not worth the spirit I expend - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

But you contribute nothing from your hearts - Harry Martinson "Aniara 61" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

We try the wheel of a routine - Harry Martinson "Aniara 62" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Their flailings in the gorge of Everlasting - Harry Martinson "Aniara 62" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The ward which light forever wages on the fierce dark's might - Harry Martinson "Aniara 62" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

No mortal knows in years of cosmic space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 63" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Coldly elapsing without other trace - Harry Martinson "Aniara 63" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

To start the exodus from far and wide - Harry Martinson "Aniara 63" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Left their exile problem in the hands of fate - Harry Martinson "Aniara 63" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Grew more despairing of the Promised Land - Harry Martinson "Aniara 63" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

We dead ones wise too late harrow you with visions - Harry Martinson "Aniara 64" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Were tangled on the lines of thought in gulfstreams of death - Harry Martinson "Aniara 64" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The stone of wisdom wrapped in the slaughter-mask of genius - Harry Martinson "Aniara 64" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A grand forgetting filled with its own life - Harry Martinson "Aniara 65" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

An insufferable point of pain dissolved - Harry Martinson "Aniara 65" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Ever deeper each among the doomed - Harry Martinson "Aniara 66" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Where joy and comfort can be found no more - Harry Martinson "Aniara 67" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That maintained the whole thing with fireproof hand - Harry Martinson "Aniara 67" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Set to measure out the time in seconds - Harry Martinson "Aniara 67" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

From penitential shades come cries for sombra - Harry Martinson "Aniara 67" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The unspoken hope turned explicit - Harry Martinson "Aniara 68" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Hope was unbalanced by terror but lifted its banner anew - Harry Martinson "Aniara 68" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A vast and unexampled show of fireworks - Harry Martinson "Aniara 69" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A typhoon of incandescent particles - Harry Martinson "Aniara 69" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Discharged chaos waves through our souls - Harry Martinson "Aniara 69" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In maddened maelstroms pulverizing itself - Harry Martinson "Aniara 69" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Burst into extinction against the shocked metals of the fuselage - Harry Martinson "Aniara 69" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Recedes into a frame no larger than what life needs - Harry Martinson "Aniara 70" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

When one has long resided among demons - Harry Martinson "Aniara 71: The Space Hand" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And years went over to the frigid, bitter spaces - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Waiting for a star to shake loose from the others - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Changing times bring changing manners - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Vaults where none but adepts of the dance were laid - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Other countries, other fortunes on my torpic transmigration - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Whose commandments have no force now - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And whose fields time set afire - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Gods may have their watchmen sitting here and listening - Harry Martinson "Aniara 72: The Song of Karella" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Is my ear whispering its own soft calls - Harry Martinson "Aniara 73: Libidella (Secret Dirge)" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The emptiness enabling the pellucidity of the absurd - Harry Martinson "Aniara 74" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

You know too much for having done no thinking - Harry Martinson "Aniara 74" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

By the boundless clarity of cosmic seas - Harry Martinson "Aniara 74" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That is our cry in the oceans of beyond - Harry Martinson "Aniara 75" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Gauged against the curve of present time - Harry Martinson "Aniara 76" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Gauged against our numbers' new sum total - Harry Martinson "Aniara 76" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A black-draped sun in cosmic burial ground - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That first in firestorms blazed along time's Cape - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Shot flames where the jaws of darkness gape - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Left no more than slag and scale to mark its grave - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Stand an endless night in cosmic burial grounds - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Plants its rounded profile on the gas-bright nebula - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In whose dismal cave the genie of the lamp died - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Frozen nameless in light's grave and without trace - Harry Martinson "Aniara 77" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Through a deranged and poisoned land took flight - Harry Martinson "Aniara 79" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A moment's windfall of fair-weather luck - Harry Martinson "Aniara 80" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Ironical winds of the soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 81" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Once mocked for their tears beyond measure - Harry Martinson "Aniara 81" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The ship with its hull full of scars - Harry Martinson "Aniara 81" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Addressing my hardening tongue to asbestos and silicon - Harry Martinson "Aniara 81" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Man's honor set at defiance and irreparable deicide - Harry Martinson "Aniara 81" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

On a journey that had our hearts' curse - Harry Martinson "Aniara 81" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The legions of atoms that overlay Ninevah's blocks - Harry Martinson "Aniara 83: The Song of Erosion" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

To their unending sins of erosion - Harry Martinson "Aniara 83: The Song of Erosion" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Each hypocrite knows well the clandestine smell of decay - Harry Martinson "Aniara 83: The Song of Erosion" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Hollows burnt dry in the lava from ruin's great bay - Harry Martinson "Aniara 83: The Song of Erosion" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Listen to the shattered trombones - Harry Martinson "Aniara 83: The Song of Erosion" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A splintering zither plays songs of the sphinx - Harry Martinson "Aniara 83: The Song of Erosion" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A god of roses draws nigh - Harry Martinson "Aniara 86: Song from Gond" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

When the summers of gods begin greening - Harry Martinson "Aniara 86: Song from Gond" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The apathetic mind and forfeit soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 87" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Dwindled through the world's entropic ways - Harry Martinson "Aniara 87" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Ennui, that limit to the life of ease - Harry Martinson "Aniara 87" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

But space was still an open-ended game - Harry Martinson "Aniara 87" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The pupil dilated to the wellspring of her soul - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Heard appeals and echoes from far skies - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That hailed her by a name that she had never heard - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A fragment from all that we had met - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Not only cosmic barrens and psychic emptiness through which we fare - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Many a secret fate whose marks on fortitude are deep and hard to bear - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And keeps accounts of life's ungenerous fates - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In wastes that held no rescue for their astronauts - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

To be opened when Chance approves - Harry Martinson "Aniara 88" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Space stands harder and more brutal than before - Harry Martinson "Aniara 89" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Out of the clutches of demonic space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 89" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That day I shall resume my former trust - Harry Martinson "Aniara 90" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Almost as an answer to my thoughts - Harry Martinson "Aniara 90" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

From that enshrouded kingdom where she dwelt - Harry Martinson "Aniara 90" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

My mind's magnificent and dazzling bride - Harry Martinson "Aniara 90" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Our gold-dense gravity was close to losing equilibrium - Harry Martinson "Aniara 90" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Loosed from chains to locate the defect - Harry Martinson "Aniara 90" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

A fairy-tale written in panic - Harry Martinson "Aniara 91" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Lifted in three hours the load of dread and deadweight - Harry Martinson "Aniara 91" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Nevermore to us would be returned - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

To keep alive the faith that time had gnawed at - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Swollen mouths sucked blood from their divinity - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That doubt let dribble pointlessly away - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Found slaughters here ironically lukewarm - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Mere pantomimes of rites they'd practiced - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Whose souls were frozen through - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

They knew their deficiencies were thousandfold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 92" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Where hope was slight against such glooms - Harry Martinson "Aniara 93" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And urged them ease the manner of our doom - Harry Martinson "Aniara 93" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Leaving only bits entirely unable to devour themselves - Harry Martinson "Aniara 94: Death Certificate" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Things in this crevasse between to seem and be - Harry Martinson "Aniara 95" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And no one came requesting an illusion - Harry Martinson "Aniara 95" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

All things were windows on the hall of dread - Harry Martinson "Aniara 95" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Where words of comfort found no welcome - Harry Martinson "Aniara 95" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

In dread ecstatic all souls raised their knell - Harry Martinson "Aniara 95" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The swift approach of catalclysmic days - Harry Martinson "Aniara 96" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Wrapped every fact inside a shield of formulae - Harry Martinson "Aniara 96" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Can forecast when the time will be too late - Harry Martinson "Aniara 96" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Thought broke down and fantasy died out - Harry Martinson "Aniara 97" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Overwhelmed by the perpetual enigmas of star-strewn galaxies - Harry Martinson "Aniara 97" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Our every dream submitted and acknowledged - Harry Martinson "Aniara 97" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And questioned one another on the road to home - Harry Martinson "Aniara 97" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

I invoke the devastator of all cold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Rise unharmed from her ossuary shell - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Time's tooth bored to every nook our dreams - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Commingled now among the thousands - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Hung so sparsely scattered in eternal cold - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

That every sun was martyr to the void - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Where a crowd of cosmic emigrants sat shivering - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Playing the infinite in mortal chess - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

But in his mouth the rhetoric congealed - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Only death's echoes were heard answering - Harry Martinson "Aniara 99" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Had met to turn their backs upon death's ocean - Harry Martinson "Aniara 100" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Space made of stone enclosed the souls of men - Harry Martinson "Aniara 100" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The silence of the cold stones met the ear - Harry Martinson "Aniara 100" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

The soul's will rose more clearly into view - Harry Martinson "Aniara 101" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Extricating time at last from space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 101" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Our only home became the night of space - Harry Martinson "Aniara 102" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Compassion flourishes at life's foundation - Harry Martinson "Aniara 102" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

We crashed into the Law's precise command - Harry Martinson "Aniara 102" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Cosmic night, forever cleft from day - Harry Martinson "Aniara 103" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Around our grave a glass-clear silence cast - Harry Martinson "Aniara 103" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

Delivered from the stars' embittered strings - Harry Martinson "Aniara 103" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg

And through us all Nirvana's current ranged - Harry Martinson "Aniara 103" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg


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