Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Suhonen: Citizens Göran Palm is dead – Expressen

The poet and writer Goran Palm has passed away at the age of 85 years.

Daniel Suhonen remembers a poet who was notoriously interested in ordinary people.

National Goran Palm (born 1931) is dead. The message reaches me at three-certificates on the sunny Tuesday afternoon and it feels like a last sad diktrad in any of Palms own works from the 1960s or 70s. One of our major social commentators and poets are gone, the early spring that claimed so many.
It is like the welfare die now, right before our eyes. Another era has passed on. Göran Palm, which debuted in 1961, stands out as the time of his left writers and poets who were most notoriously interested in the Swedish society and the common people. While others went to Chinese villages he went to Swedish suburbs.
It was particularly noticeable in the poetry collections such as “Why did the nights no names?” 1971, or the huge “Sweden, a Winter’s Tale” in four parts that came out between 1984 and 2005, and was republished as recently as last year. In the studies of their own work at LM Ericson depicted priest son Palm a working life where solidarity and powerlessness made up for the demands of influence and participation that later became political reality before time turned.



Concurrent with Sara Lidman

Goran Palm tried this key works in the modern working class literature does not just write about class but also discuss how this description could be made possible in an indoctrinated bourgeois society where the working class was always the exception, dehumanised, transformed into collective, while this collective was pacified. Workers were also individual: “those who work in production is not only unique personalities but also part of a collective, a caste, an exploited class,” he wrote in “A Year at LM” (1972).
Co Sven Lindqvist and Sara Lidman , he belonged to the Swedish author who constantly found himself in – often critical – dialogue with the “movement” and inspired union activists across the country to review and discuss their workplaces and formulate their own visions of the future. In this way, he was in communication with another of the Swedish work poetry cross tufted ducks – namely Folke Fridell with novels like “Thank you for me – treadmill” spoke directly to the reading worker of human dignity rather than to the officials that set new powers.
Goran Palm’s writing is proof that it is partly a social critique that is content to criticize the existing order, and one which moreover do everything in its power to arm the powerless.

Eager as a schoolboy

“the superego can only be seen from the soul the bottom, in the same way that the powers can only be viewed from the bottom of society. It is therefore important to get down to where you can get an overview “as he wrote in” Poems in verse and prose “(1976).
in the 2000s, when I worked as study secretary at ABF-house ran his own great democracy Liv in Sweden where probably thousands of” ordinary “people talked about their lives. Together they created the members and those who participated in the talks rings a major epics of our country. Now and then used Goran Palm storming in with his broad-brimmed hat on my office on Sveavägen and up throwing ideas which should be immediately implemented. Eager as a schoolboy, although he was already in their 70s.



No shortcuts

Once he sat down just in a chair at my desk and started telling me about his life as nyenkel poet. It was only annoying, but after a while I lowered garden, turned to him and showed that I have given up, and then he smiled broadly and continued to tell. That he wanted to discuss and express their opinion, did not prevent him throughout his writing and not the least motion Life in Sweden above all was a very good listener.

Frequently people’s lives, dreams and traumas were material to the great social poetry and drama. There is a huge democratic hopefulness in this poetry that was Goran Palm lifework. As he finished his best political poems, “Twenty-five residents of the Kingdom of Sweden”, there is “no shortcuts to the people”.
I wonder if Swedish people will ever have such a loving listeners again, when now Palm citizens have set point.

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