Lena Bezawork Grönlund
Biographic Data
| ID | 1034075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lena Bezawork Grönlund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lena Bezawork |
| FAMILY NAME | Grönlund |
| SIGNATURE | GRÖNLUND L B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Akkawoo
Akkawoo Lena Bezawork Grönlund (bio) A grandmother thinks of her two kite-flying grandchildren each time she wakes and sees the birds outside her window. The windows start on the floor and stretch to the ceiling on all sides of the restaurant. From here, you can see the harvest fields and the wetlands further down surrounding us. Gabra and Teshome look like dust corns or stones that someone threw. They run fast and hard, as if they are on their w…
Mercato, Addis
Mercato, Addis Lena Bezawork Grönlund (bio) red bicycles blue houses red bicycles I dreamof blue houses red bicycles [End Page 294] Lena Bezawork Grönlund Lena Bezawork Grönlund, a former freelancer, was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but grew up in the north of Sweden. She has worked in the library and in the information science field. She is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Copyright © 2010 T…
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The Winter
The Winter Lena Bezawork Grönlund (bio) The snow comprises everythingand everybody here. Insideeverything is gathered, tools toget through and over it: shovels,skis, sticks, kicksleds, skates,sleighs stand against thefaçades. In the snow are all theyears that have preceeded.When it falls, it falls anew. Onesingle snowflake carries theweight of a life. Against yourhand it immortalizes itself; itspeaks in its own dissolvement.The snow holds entire …
Kicksleds & Cloth
Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa Lena Bezawork Grönlund (bio) This citywakes with the mosquesthat begin their dayspraying, closing its eyesto the sound of drumsechoing from the churchesout into the night. [End Page 298] Lena Bezawork Grönlund Lena Bezawork Grönlund, a former freelancer, was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but grew up in the north of Sweden. She has worked in the library and in the information science field. She is currently pursuing her MFA in creativ…
The Track
Homelands: Interviews with Swedish Ethiopians
Homelands:Interviews with Swedish Ethiopians Lena Bezawork Grönlund (bio) The seven individuals introduced on the following pages do not speak Amharic or Oromo or any other Ethiopian language, yet they were all born in Ethiopia. They were adopted to Sweden from Ethiopia. Adopted Ethiopians may have a lot in common with Ethiopians born outside of Ethiopia, as they are both physically removed from Africa. Other Ethiopians have, however, in most cas…
Belaynesh
Belaynesh Lena Bezawork Grönlund (bio) A man who worked in the same household as Belaynesh drives the car. He wears a dark cotton shirt and a jacket. It is midday. We are the twins on our way to the hospital where we were born. It is the same Volkswagen she traveled in to give us birth. Twenty eight years earlier. He says it's the same route. It is also the same month as we first left. May. 1976. In the middle of the revolution. In between Selass…
Father Used to Say Mother
Father Used To Say Mother Lena Bezawork Grönlund Father used to say mother is like the river as lucid, as fast. There is no truth in such words. Mother resembles the sky, light blue, enclosing, immense without end. He is like the river dark blue, as lucid, as ready to leave. A day, a bundle of clothes. The days have passed quickly since then. They fall in between the brick stones of the walls. I have seen them myself through the magnifying glass,…
Spread and Illuminated
Spread and Illuminated Lena Bezawork Grönlund Spread and illuminated under my desk lamp pages of old and new letters, blue longhand staring fiercely at me where I sit in my gray swing able chair into late night hours. —How long has it been since you've been back home? The hands who wrote these lines are my mother's and father's. These words should speak to me, but there is only silence here. I never learned my native alphabet. These Amharic lette…
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Belaynesh
Belaynesh Lena Bezawork Grönlund (bio) A man who worked in the same household as Belaynesh drives the car. He wears a dark cotton shirt and a jacket. It is midday. We are the twins on our way to the hospital where we were born. It is the same Volkswagen she traveled in to give us birth. Twenty eight years earlier. He says it's the same route. It is also the same month as we first left. May. 1976. In the middle of the revolution. In between Selass…
Father Used to Say Mother
Father Used To Say Mother Lena Bezawork Grönlund Father used to say mother is like the river as lucid, as fast. There is no truth in such words. Mother resembles the sky, light blue, enclosing, immense without end. He is like the river dark blue, as lucid, as ready to leave. A day, a bundle of clothes. The days have passed quickly since then. They fall in between the brick stones of the walls. I have seen them myself through the magnifying glass,…
Spread and Illuminated
Spread and Illuminated Lena Bezawork Grönlund Spread and illuminated under my desk lamp pages of old and new letters, blue longhand staring fiercely at me where I sit in my gray swing able chair into late night hours. —How long has it been since you've been back home? The hands who wrote these lines are my mother's and father's. These words should speak to me, but there is only silence here. I never learned my native alphabet. These Amharic lette…
Mercato, Addis
Mercato, Addis Lena Bezawork Grönlund (bio) red bicycles blue houses red bicycles I dreamof blue houses red bicycles [End Page 294] Lena Bezawork Grönlund Lena Bezawork Grönlund, a former freelancer, was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but grew up in the north of Sweden. She has worked in the library and in the information science field. She is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Copyright © 2010 T…
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The Winter
The Winter Lena Bezawork Grönlund (bio) The snow comprises everythingand everybody here. Insideeverything is gathered, tools toget through and over it: shovels,skis, sticks, kicksleds, skates,sleighs stand against thefaçades. In the snow are all theyears that have preceeded.When it falls, it falls anew. Onesingle snowflake carries theweight of a life. Against yourhand it immortalizes itself; itspeaks in its own dissolvement.The snow holds entire …
Kicksleds & Cloth
Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa Lena Bezawork Grönlund (bio) This citywakes with the mosquesthat begin their dayspraying, closing its eyesto the sound of drumsechoing from the churchesout into the night. [End Page 298] Lena Bezawork Grönlund Lena Bezawork Grönlund, a former freelancer, was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, but grew up in the north of Sweden. She has worked in the library and in the information science field. She is currently pursuing her MFA in creativ…
The Track
Homelands: Interviews with Swedish Ethiopians
Homelands:Interviews with Swedish Ethiopians Lena Bezawork Grönlund (bio) The seven individuals introduced on the following pages do not speak Amharic or Oromo or any other Ethiopian language, yet they were all born in Ethiopia. They were adopted to Sweden from Ethiopia. Adopted Ethiopians may have a lot in common with Ethiopians born outside of Ethiopia, as they are both physically removed from Africa. Other Ethiopians have, however, in most cas…
Akkawoo
Akkawoo Lena Bezawork Grönlund (bio) A grandmother thinks of her two kite-flying grandchildren each time she wakes and sees the birds outside her window. The windows start on the floor and stretch to the ceiling on all sides of the restaurant. From here, you can see the harvest fields and the wetlands further down surrounding us. Gabra and Teshome look like dust corns or stones that someone threw. They run fast and hard, as if they are on their w…
Art (7 works) · History (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Chemistry (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)