Through Naked Branches: Selected Poems Of Tarjei Vesaas; Editor: Greenwald, Roger; Author: Vesaas, Tarjei; Paperback

Editor: Greenwald, Roger; Author: Vesaas, Tarjei
Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation; Paperback
198 pages
Published: April 2000
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0691008973

Tarjei Vesaas, one of Scandinavia's greatest fiction writers, has been less well known as a poet. Now Roger Greenwald, an award-winning translator of Scandinavian poetry, presents forty-sixpoems drawn from Vesaas's six volumes of poetry. This selection is intended to reveal the distinctive sensibility and voice of Vesaas the poet. The Norwegian texts appear facing the English versions,which won the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize.The translators groundbreaking introduction explores why Vesaas's poetry has often resisted critical analysis and how it challengesreceived notions of modernism. Excerpts from Vesaas's writings about himself and his work supply helpful background and give some sense of the man behind the work. Vesaas emerges as a lyric and meditaSelected poems of Tarjei Vesaas, translated and edited by Roger Greenwald. This text presents 46 poems drawn from Tarjei Vessaas's six volumes of poetry. This selection of poetry is intended to reveal the distinctive sensibility and voice of Vesaas the poet. The Norwegian texts appear facing the English versions.