Step in the Right Direction by Morten Søndergaard and translated by Barbara Haveland

This is poetry from Denmark.

Step in the Right Direction by Morten Søndergaard translated by Barbara Haveland is published by Bookhug. This is a Book originally written in Danish. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781927040096E12.

Step in the Right Direction, translated from the Danish by Barbara Haveland, brings Morten Søndergaard’s Danish-language work into English through Bookhug. Published in 2012, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Søndergaard’s title has the dry wit of a philosophical instruction that refuses to become self-help, which makes the book feel conceptual without losing its human temperature. I would not read this as a puzzle with a hidden answer. Read it for pressure, for texture, for the place where a line suddenly becomes stranger than its apparent subject. The book matters because it keeps the translated poem alive as encounter, not summary, and because Denmark enters the shelf through music rather than report.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.