The voice of a woman. Female poetry of Finland. Anthology

This book contains the best examples of modern female poetry of Finland. Women -poets entered the literary advance of the country of Suomi at the beginning of the 20th century, almost simultaneously with the birth of an independent state, spoke in two languages ​​at once - Finnish and Swedish. Over the past century, the woman"s voice brought her own to the bilingual poetry of Finland, a very special sound, for the eternal topics common to poets of any gender appear in the poems of women in a different angle and from a different angle of view. After all, women write about love and war, about nature and old age, about life and death, otherwise than men. In the poems of the poets presented in the collection, the reader will feel the course of the time and paths of the development of a poetic language. The range of styles and thereby are inexhaustible - from high romance to quirks of postmodernism