| Through Naked Branches: Selected Poems of Tarjei Vesaas Contributor(s): Vesaas, Tarjei (Author), Greenwald, Roger (Editor), Greenwald, Roger (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0999580345 ISBN-13: 9780999580349 Publisher: Black Widow Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - Literary Criticism | European - Scandinavian |
| Dewey: 839.821 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.50 lbs) 198 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Scandinavian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tarjei Vesaas's fame as one of Norway's and Scandinavia's greatest fiction writers of the 20th century has often overshadowed his achievement as a poet. This revised bilingual selection presents, in finely honed translations, forty six poems that reveal the distinctive sensibility and voice of Vesaas the poet. In a groundbreaking introductory essay, Roger Greenwald explores why Vesaas's work has eluded many attempts at critical analysis and how it challenges received notions of modernism. A collage of excerpts from Vesaas's writings about himself and his work supplies helpful background and gives some sense of the man behind the work. Vesaas emerges from this volume as a lyric and meditative poet of uncommon depth, who renders states of being beyond the reach not only of discourse, but of most poetry as well |
