Hundred Thousand Hours by Gro Dahle and translated by Rebecca Wadlinger

This is poetry from Norway.

Hundred Thousand Hours by Gro Dahle translated by Rebecca Wadlinger is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Norwegian. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781937027247E12.

Hundred Thousand Hours, by Gro Dahle and translated by Rebecca Wadlinger, is a Norwegian poetry collection whose title makes time feel both enormous and countable. A hundred thousand hours is too many to hold in the mind, yet it is also finite, measurable, part of a life’s inventory. Dahle’s work often has a strange, direct, fable-like quality, and this book seems likely to make ordinary experience feel tilted, childlike, and unsettling. I would read it as a meditation on duration: how hours accumulate in the body, in memory, in family, in fear, in play. Wadlinger’s translation brings Norwegian lyric strangeness into English without needing to over-explain it. The collection seems ideal for readers interested in poems that feel simple on the surface and quietly uncanny underneath.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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