Selected Poems by Knut degrd 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), degrd 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, degrd's poems manage both to charm
and chill in their honesty and simplicity. In the words of VrtLand
(Oslo's daily newspaper), "Norway does not have a court poet. But
Norway does have a poet of European stature, in Knut degrd." Here
indeed is poetry "that deserves all the superlatives in the
critic's vocabulary."
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