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North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, a Bilingual Edition

North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen, a Bilingual Edition

Jacobsen, Rolf
Greenwald, Roger
Greenwald, Roger

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 022633354X
ISBN13: 9780226333540
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 21 2015
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
North in the World presents 121 poems by Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994), one of Norway's greatest modern poets. Garnering the highest praise of critics, Jacobsen won many of Norway's and Sweden's most prestigious literary awards, including the Swedish Academy's Dobloug Prize and the Grand Nordic Prize, also known as the Little Nobel. But he also has earned a wide popular audience, because ordinary readers can understand and enjoy the way he explores the complex counterpoint of nature and technology, progress and self-destruction, daily life and cosmic wonder.

Drawing from all twelve of his books, and including one poem collected posthumously, North in the World offers award-winning English translations of Jacobsen's poems, accompanied by the original Norwegian texts. The translator, the American poet Roger Greenwald, worked with Jacobsen himself to correct errors that had crept into the Norwegian texts over the years. An in-depth introduction by Greenwald highlights the main features of Jacobsen's poetry, and extensive endnotes, as well as indexes to titles and first lines in both languages, enhance the usefulness of the book for general readers and scholars alike. The result is the definitive bilingual edition of Jacobsen's marvelous poetry.

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