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Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Odegard, Knut
McNeil, Brian
McNeil, Brian

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1906614075
ISBN13: 9781906614072
Publisher: Dedalus Pr
Published: Oct 1 2009
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Selected Poems by Knut degård is a long-overdue opportunity for English language readers to survey a representative selection of poems by one of the finest contemporary Norwegian poets. Described as a poet who is intensely aware of the sacred, yet [who] visits the darkest and often the most shocking corners in his determination to sanctify those places (Kenneth Steven, Modern Poetry in Translation), degård draws on both the illuminating short lyric and the significantly longer meditation or sequence (often working in parallel to the liturgy of the Catholic Church) to blur the line between personal anecdote and visionary perception. At once naturalistic and experimental, solemn and moving, and, by turns, hilarious and off-beat, degård's poems manage both to charm and chill in their honesty and simplicity. In the words of VårtLand (Oslo's daily newspaper), Norway does not have a court poet. But Norway does have a poet of European stature, in Knut degård. Here indeed is poetry that deserves all the superlatives in the critic's vocabulary.

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