It takes as its central theme the transience and motion of a journey, the raw and painful journey into and through a new relationship. Many critics characterized this a collection of love poems, but the tone is neither happy nor celebratory and images of death and cold, blood and wounds, isolation and loss are as insistent as ever. The title is open to multiple interpretations about what is lost along the way and about losing yourself, in the sense of abandoning yourself to another person, to love. But fill it before morning comes, or know that you must die. The vulnerability, alienation and disturbing violence of her poetry and prose poems is still there, but seems somehow less shocking because there is room for an element of character-ization and psychological explanation.
Human relationships are once more a central theme, and female, first-person narrators predominate.
Some of the stories grew out of travels to film festivals around the world, others are fruits of a recent visit to the USA, where she and her husband were interviewing Vietnam war veterans. The perfect public image of the well-groomed, efficient, new female consul conceals an inner sense of insecurity and disorientation. The finished translation is the result of much discussion with the author, further proof if any were needed of her fervent feeling for language and the aesthetic effect of words. Please note that we can no longer accept Eurocheques. Each main issue of SBR contains Bookshelf , a comprehensive selection of reviews of recent books in Swedish, or translated from Swedish.