Kaisa Leppikangas is a single mother and psychologist. She writes poems in a social services office for parents exhausted by the rough edges of everyday life and escapes the pressures of the everyday into wastelands.
At the festival, excerpts will be heard from Leppikangas’s poetry collection Joutomaa (“Wasteland”), which came into being like barley growing in the middle of a rocky desert. It doesn’t heed the laws of poetry, but welcomes the wind and dances with the sunflowers.
Curators’ Comments: “Leppikangas is an inspiring and forceful writer who, in the spirit of poetic tradition, sprouts up in wastelands, passageways, and forgotten roadsides, where people and their life stories can be found. Her texts are rich in personal experience and self-taught, positive persistence, making me eager to delve deeper.”
