Noget at leve op til by Benny Andersen and translated by Michael Goldman

This is poetry from Denmark.

Noget at leve op til by Benny Andersen translated by Michael Goldman is published by Spuyten Duyvil. This is a Book originally written in Danish. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781944682798E12.

Noget at leve op til, by Benny Andersen, is a Danish poetry collection from Denmark, translated from Danish by Michael Goldman, published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2017. It is a Danish collection by Benny Andersen, translated by Michael Goldman, whose title suggests something to live up to, or a standard pressing from ahead. The poems can be approached through that gentle pressure between ordinary life, wit, expectation, and the strange comedy of being asked to become enough. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

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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