Wet Autumn by Tom Hennen Early morning, everything damp all through. Cars go by. A ripping sound of tires through water. For two days the air Has smelled like salamanders. The little lake on the edge of town hidden in fog, Its cattails and island gone. All through the gloom of the dark week Bright…
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for Harold
Olav H. Hauge (1908–1994), a notable modernists, was one of Norway’s most beloved poets in the 20th century. While he lived a seemingly plain life as a gardener and fruit farmer in Ulvik where he grew up, he lived a grander life in literature. As a poet, Hauge started on the outskirts of the literary…
It’s the Dream
Writing poetry is difficult, translating poems are almost impossible – never are words so refined and difficult to render and interpret as in a simple poem. Here are two translation of a favorite poem of mine; Olav H. Hauge‘s Dream It’s the Dream Translated by Robin Fulton It’s the dream we carry in secret that…
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