Containing Matters which keep the Human race Preserved.

Timestamps:

introductions, recent non-podcast reads (0:00)

Harry Martinson biography and non-spoiler discussion (17:46)

plot summary and spoiler discussion (48:08)

opera and film discusion (1:35:42)

Bibliography:

Generation Spaceship Project - text and notes of "Aniara" https://gsproject.edublogs.org/gs-texts/texts-used-in-2017/aniara-by-harry-martinson-3/

Johannesson, Eric O. - "Aniara: Poetry and the Poet in the Modern World" Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 32, No. 4 (November, 1960)

Klass, Stephen - introduction to "Aniara" (1999)

Sjöberg, Leif - "Harry Martinson: From Vagabond to Space Explorer", Books Abroad, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Summer, 1974)

Sjöberg, Leif - translator's note to "Aniara" (1999)

Smith, William Jay and Sjöberg, Leif - "On Harry Martinson", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 14, No. 4 (July/August 1985)

Titelman, David - "On Nomadic Shores Inward - Harry Martinson’s Journey to Late-Life Suicide", The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 90:2, 2021

Vowles, Richard Beckman - "Harry Martinson, Sweden's Seaman-Poet", Books Abroad, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Autumn, 1951)