Writing Alver, Writing Smith: Everyday in a Poet’s Biography
Writing Alver, Writing Smith: Everyday in a Poet’s Biography

Summary/Abstract: The dates when somebody is born, a book is published, an exhibition is opened or just when something is begun or finished are usually easily remembered or can be retraced with the help of written records, documents, newspapers, archival material and the like. The countries we have travelled to, the cities we have seen and the landmarks we have visited are the places of prominence in our memory. What about the moments when nothing unusual happens? Or rather, what happens in between the memorable, the pivotal and the exceptional? The aim of this paper is to analyze the extent of the everyday2 in the biographies of two very different poets – Stevie Smith and Betti Alver.

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