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100 1 _aAsunta, Heikki,
_d1904-1959
245 1 0 _aMustaa ja kultaa
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-03-17
508 _aTuula Temonen
520 _aMustaa ja kultaa by Heikki Asunta is a poetry collection written in the interwar period. Mixing narrative ballads, dramatic monologues, and quiet landscape lyrics, it probes the tension between darkness and sudden flashes of brightness. The likely topic is the struggle of damaged lives and harsh fates set against brief moments of grace in war, vice, death, and Nordic nature. The book unfolds in five parts, shifting from stark portraits to intimate nocturnes and, finally, bare seascapes. Early pieces follow doomed figures and reckonings: an alchemist who dies by his furnace yet leaves a glint of gold, a tyrant lord’s fall, a fallen air ace honored by an enemy, shipwrecked daredevils, a street girl’s tender end, and a wry tavern cameo with Frans Hals. The middle section grows harsher, giving voice to the resigned, the condemned, the crippled, and the desperate: a limping wolf vanishes into night, a dancehall girl collapses, a last letter readies a noose, polar comrades turn on each other, and homages to Fröding sing of vagabonds and a ruined poet. Next come satires of literary fame and mourning, before the tone softens into love’s afterglow and loss—summer nights, a proud manor daughter, the last ship departing, and an empty room haunted by memory. The closing miniatures fix autumn, storm, and sea in hard contours. Throughout, terse images—moon and frost, rope and steel, smoke and surf—set black against sudden gold, holding pity and irony in a clear, unsentimental light. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cJyväskylä: K. J. Gummerus Osakeyhtiö, 1929
653 _aFinnish poetry -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78232
999 _c118952
_d118952