Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark's leading poets. She has received the
Nordic Literature Prize - Scandinavia's most prestigious literary
award - and the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize. This new
translation of her work combines two recent collections, The
Migrant Bird's Compass and Salamander Sun, which comprise the third
and fourth parts of a quartet written over ten years: the first two
parts are The Whales in Paris and Tarkovsky's Horses (published in
English by Bloodaxe in 2010 as Tarkovsky's Horses and other poems).
The Migrant Bird's Compass is a book of poems about the dimensions
of travel, either to specific countries or as an inner journey. The
route from birth to death is also portrayed. Travel demands
commitment and curiosity. The only predictable thing about it is
the unpredictable. Travel implies vulnerability, but also much that
has happened at home while one was away. The poems are about the
experience of 'resting in myself / despite the fire in the centre
of the earth'. Salamander Sun presents 60 poems, one for each year,
from 1952, when Pia Tafdrup was born, to 2011; from the first
chaotic sensations, through the gradual discovery of the world and
its diversity, and of language, its possibilities and challenges;
from growing up on a farm, puberty, study, politics, love, to
becoming a poet, having two sons, getting older and having old
parents; to leaving one's mark and understanding one's place in the
passage of time. The poems cast light backwards, but also seek a
focus in the future. Together with The Whales in Paris and
Tarkovsky's Horses the two books form a quartet that centres on the
theme of journeying and passage, its individual parts creating a
field of tension. Each part portrays an element: water, earth, air
and fire, each represented by a creature, and each part has a key
figure: the beloved person, the father, the mother and the "I" that
recalls its life. The quartet is an attempt to find structure in
the midst of chaos.
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