Guarding the Air: Selected Poems of Gunnar Harding

Gunnar Harding's appealing poetry is marked by a strong intellect and a great gift for imagery. Anselm Hollo described it as "a tapestry that is musical as well as visual-humorous, bluesy, and always compassionate." Guarding the Air is the first large selection of Harding's poetry to appear in English: 112 poems drawn from eleven of the thirteen books Harding has published that contain poetry in verse. As well as line drawings by the poet, the book contains a brief introduction, a guide to the poetry in the form of Harding's prefaces to his three Swedish volumes of selected poems, and extensive endnotes.