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Four Scandinavian Poets

August 2011

In a gathering of Scandinavian poets, Rune Christiansen ponders memory and death, Thomas Boberg feels dejection, Frederik Bjerre Andersen invents a character, and Gunnar Harding looks back fifty-five years.

From “The Horse Eaters”
By Thomas Boberg
The doorkeeper sniffs out your presence.
Translated from Danish by Morten Høi Jensen
Multilingual
Impromptu
By Rune Christiansen
When the snow covers your grave you have forgotten the snow.
Translated from Norwegian by Agnes Scott Langeland
Multilingual
A Telephone Conversation
By Rune Christiansen
You were unique, like / we all are unique.
Translated from Norwegian by Agnes Scott Langeland
Multilingual
1956
By Gunnar Harding
The shadow-play of thoughts / exposed what words concealed.
Translated from Swedish by Roger Greenwald
Multilingual
Main Character
By Frederik Bjerre Andersen
His face is a baby’s bottom. And yet. Not.
Translated from Danish by Morten Høi Jensen
Multilingual