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Heart Hanna Hallgren’s That Which Trains Differently, Like a Heart is an intensive, sensual and gripping collection. The poems focus on love: evasive, always present, so much pain and sweetness that we are always thinking about it. And it’s about the heart, that strong, hardy, yet sensitive muscle that is also the dwelling-place of the soul and the emotions. Hanna Hallgren has published several poetry collections. She is a researcher and lecturer in literature and gender, a poet who deals with complex events in literature and in everyday life, and whose writing moves between the poles of love, politics, gender and power, seeing in these things the totality of life. Here, her voice, and those of other poets, resounds in a boundless song about the longing and loss of each and every one of us. Hanna Hallgren THAT WHICH TRAINS DIFFERENTLY, LIKE A HEART Pequod Press Rights: Pequod Press to believe in fire and blood even now I don’t dare to write the true lines, if they even exist when pain is cast in joy it becomes fire put your hand in here and feel whether the iron will become a spear it’s not possible to know its form also transforms us Hanna Hallgren, That Which Trains Differently, Like a Heart (Pequod press). Excerpt from the series ’Fire’ 31 Photo: Melissa Henderson