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tuft of grass. Discussion It has been proven impossible to find anything about this book despite repeated searches of numerous databases. The most useful information comes from a review of
the book by a reader who posted it on Amazon.com; that, and a biography of the author, may help us understand the themes of the book. First, Martinson is best
known for a book called Aniara: an epic science fiction poem, an epic in verse that tells of the spaceship Aniara that carries the last 8800 survivors of humanity away
from Earth, which has been devastated in a nuclear holocaust (Martinson, 1999). An asteroid knocks the ship off course and damages the steering mechanism beyond repair, so that the ship
is doomed to wander forever as its passengers and crew die one by one; it becomes, in effect, a floating tomb (Martinson, 1999). This bleak view of mans fate may
have been the result of Martinsons own background: he went to sea to escape from an intolerable childhood, but failed to find the freedom and empowerment he was looking for;
instead, he contracted black-lung (he was a stoker) and ended his seagoing career in 1927 (Harry Martinson, 2003). It seems that he had little experience of beauty in his
life, which may help to explain why he wrote about it in detail in Views from a tuft of grass. This book is a collection of essays, but less philosophical
than Aniara, which some critics suggested was obscure in parts because of Martinsons consideration of deep philosophical issues. It appears that Martinsons concern in this volume is not only what
he says but how he says it: "Harry Martinson ... approached such apparently routine topics - water, boating, maps, etc. - in a manner that supported his thesis that reality
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