FIVE SWEDISH POETS

The prolific translator from Swedish provides succinct and helpful introductions to his selections by five of Sweden's most important contemporary poets: the learned and impersonal Kjell Espmark (b. 1930); the bleakly imagistic Lennart Sj…gren (b. 1930); the edgy and disturbing Eva Str…m; the compact and spare Staffan S…derblom (b. 1944); and the versatile poetry of the late Werner Aspenstr…m.