Breathing Exercise: Poems of Rolf Jacobsen

by Rolf Jacobsen, Olav Grinde (Translator)

Poetry. Rolf Jacobsen is a poet of silence and light. Born in 1907, he is considered Norway's first modern poet and its greatest living poet. Jacobsen sees the secret connection between things. With a penetrating vision, he writes of the city and machines as perhaps no-one else, and in other poems he looks deep into nature, seeing the snail in the grass "who wanders on a kiss." This collection includes a selection of poems from various periods of Jacobsen's work plus an introduction and an interview with him. The translator, Olav Grinde, is a Norwegian writer and artist.

44 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1985

Reviews

[Namnlaus · Rating 2 out of 5]

En liten diktsamling av den kjente lyrikeren Rolf Jacobsen som omhandler både A og B.

Noen fine skildringer, særlig diktene som tar for seg naturkreftene er fornøyelige. Men dikt og er dikt og jeg synes dessverre det er et noe tafatt preg over det hele.

[Mills College Library]

839.82 J176b 1985