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This volume includes in their entirety three collections of the work of Bo Carpelan, the Finnish poet - "The Cool Day", "The Courtyard" and "Years Like Leaves". Carpelan received the Nordic Literature Prize in 1977, and in 1980 was appointed Professor Artium by Finland's President.

In the 1930s, Bo Carpelan found mention of his great-uncle Axel in a biography of the composer Jean Sibelius. This friendship is the genesis of Carpelan's fictional diary of Axel's dual obsession with music and with a man who, unlike him, had enough confidence in his creativity to compose his own.In Carpelan's novel, set during Finland's struggle to escape Russian colonization, young Axel's life is full of melancholic introspection communicate...

Urwind comprises fifty-three letters from Daniel Urwind, an aging bookseller, to his wife, who has left him for an indeterminate spell of greater freedom and study in the United States. The wife's absence haunts the letters, which are often tales of Daniel's daily rituals. Yet Daniel's narration of such mundanities--changing the bookshop window dressing, or housekeeping--approaches magical realism, memories of his wife, fantasies, bad dreams, ...