Sainila, Down Memory Lane - Collected Poems

“You should pick out the correct symbols in the map of my landscape to understand the colors of my soul. Rich soil, the brown collar of the road, and the rocks piled at field corners. Haircap moss climbing on top of a hummock shelters the morning star and a blueberry flower.” Oili Sainila's Down Memory Lane: Collected Poems translated by Sirkka-Liisa Leinonen (Seutu 2021) includes poems from the author's two previous collections. The speaker of the poems travels in Finnish landscapes from the...