When We Leave Each Other Selected Poems by Henrik Nordbrandt and translated by Patrick Phillips

This is poetry from Denmark.

When We Leave Each Other Selected Poems by Henrik Nordbrandt translated by Patrick Phillips is published by Open Letter. This is a Selected originally written in Danish. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781934824429E12.

When We Leave Each Other Selected Poems, by Henrik Nordbrandt, is a selected Danish poetry volume from Denmark, translated from Danish by Patrick Phillips, published by Open Letter in 2013. It is a Danish selected poetry volume by Henrik Nordbrandt, translated by Patrick Phillips, organized around separation, travel, and aftermath. Selected poems often make a life feel like a weather system, and this volume’s title gives that weather a precise ache of departure. 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.

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