Dropar i austavind

by Olav H. Hauge

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Published January 1, 1966

About the author

Olav Håkonson Hauge was a Norwegian poet. He was born in Ulvik and lived his whole life there, working as a gardener in his own orchard.

Aside from writing his own poems, he was internationally oriented, and translated poems by Alfred Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Robert Browning, Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Stephen Crane, Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Trakl, Paul Celan, Bertolt Brecht and Robert Bly to Norwegian.

He was also inspired by classical Chinese poetry, e.g. in his poem "T`ao Ch`ien" in the collection Spør vinden (Ask the wind).

Hauge's first poems were published in 1946, all in a traditional form. He later wrote modernist poetry and in particular concrete poetry that inspired other, younger Norwegian poets, such as Jan Erik Vold.

Reviews

[EliG · Rating 4 out of 5]

EG STEND EG, SEDDU

Eg stend eg, seddu.

Eg stod her i fjor òg eg, seddu.

Eg kjem til å stå her eg, seddu.

Eg tek det eg, seddu.

Du veit ikkje noko du, seddu.

Du er nyss komen du, seddu.

Kor lenge skal me stå her?

Me fær vel eta, seddu.

Eg stend når eg et òg eg, seddu.

Og kastar fatet i veggen.

Me fær vel kvila, seddu.

Me fær vel sova, seddu.

Me fær vel pissa og skita òg, seddu.

Kor lenge skal me stå her?

Eg stend eg, seddu.

Eg tek det eg, seddu.

Eg kjem til å stå her, eg, seddu.

[Ida Aasebøstøl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gull, glimmer, gneis