aniara

Aniara is a poem of science fiction written by the Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson in 1956. It was published on 13 October 1956. The title comes from ancient Greek ἀνιαρός, "sad, despairing", plus special resonances that the sound "a" had for Martinson.The poem consists of 103 cantos and relates the tragedy of a space ship which, originally bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from the ravaged Earth, after an accident is ejected from the solar system and into an existential struggle. The style is symbolic, sweeping and innovative for its time, with creative use of neologisms to suggest the science fictional setting: We listen daily to the sonic coinsprovided every one of us and playedthrough the Finger-singer worn on the left hand.We trade coins of diverse denominations:and all of them play all that they containand though a dyma 1 scarcely weighs one grainit plays out like a cricket on each handblanching here in this distraction-land.
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