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Twelve Meditations
Jan Erik Vold
Translated from Norwegian by Jan Erik Vold
Twelve Meditations, by Jan Erik Vold and translated by Jan Erik Vold from Norwegian, brings Norwegian-language poetry from Norway into English through Norwegian meditative sequence, self-translation, and thought arranged as twelve deliberate pauses. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for meditation, sequence, time, and the discipline of returning to attention without pretending to master it, not as a fixed lesson about Norway. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Twelve Meditations belongs in the translated poetry library because it offers a Norwegian poetic mode of reflection, austerity, and measured philosophical drift.
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Green Integer
- Language
- Norwegian
- Country
- Norway
- ISBN
- 9781933382227