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Lassi Sinkkonen stands among the defining voices of Finland’s young poet generation of the 1960s and ’70s. Towards Us, a comprehensive selection of his poetry curated and translated with great care by Ernest Wuorinen, introduces this unique Nordic voice to the English-reading public for the first time.
As a working-class man, Sinkkonen’s descriptions of urban and proletarian life are central to his writing. Humor and biting irony add zest to his day-to-day realism and to descriptions of even the harshest life conditions. Despite the often dark and jagged outlook, there’s also love and longing, ecstatic encounters with nature, as well as visions of societal change and a hope for something better.
Towards Us launches Kroxet Books’ Modern Nordic Poets series, devoted to introducing essential 20thcentury voices from the North in English translation to a new generation of readers worldwide.
The author and poet Lassi Sinkkonen (1937–1976) was an important and influential voice in postwar Finnish literature. He was born in Vyborg — later ceded to the Soviet Union after the Winter War — but Helsinki was his true home, a city that figures prominently in his poetry and prose as both setting and subject. Sinkkonen identified as a proletarian writer. Alongside his literary work, he earned his living in construction, laundry services, metal work, and as a vehicle painter. A member of the Finnish Communist Party, he was often described as the torchbearer of Finland’s left-wing literary tradition. Active during the counterculture era of the 1960s and ‘70s, Sinkkonen emerged as a major young poet of his generation and a prominent novelist whose work bridged social commentary and artistic ambition. His career, cut tragically short by his suicide in 1976, left a lasting imprint on Finnish literature.
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