Product Description: Fiction. Poetry. Translated from the Finnish by Anselm Hollo. In this late poem-novel-memoir, Saarikoski explores life in the 'buffer zones' of language, genre, geography and consciousness. This Finnish poet of the Generation of '68 "shocked his elders in much the same way that William S...read more

Product Description: "From the late nineteen-fifties through the early seventies, Pentti Saarikoski (1937-83) was a spokesman for what European historians now refer to as the Generation of '68. He was a highly literate and iconoclastic radical in a 'buffer zone' country whose political climate in the Cold War years presented far greater ambiguities than that of the major Western European states...read more