The Roads Have Come to an End Now: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen

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Norway's Rolf Jacobsen is one of Europe's most acclaimed writers yet, as Robert Bly points out in his introduction: "This magnificent poet is so little known in the United States." This bilingual edition, which selects the best work from Jacobsen's ten volumes, will help remedy that situation.

Three dedicated translators contribute to this book. Robert Bly's translations celebrate the radiance with which Jacobsen praised the complex beauty of the Earth; Robert Hedin focuses on the countryside, creature, and star poems; and Roger Greenwald draws difficult emotions from Jacobsen's charged last poems, composed while his wife struggled with fatal illness—as ...

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Norway's Rolf Jacobsen is one of Europe's most acclaimed writers yet, as Robert Bly points out in his introduction: "This magnificent poet is so little known in the United States." This bilingual edition, which selects the best work from Jacobsen's ten volumes, will help remedy that situation.

Three dedicated translators contribute to this book. Robert Bly's translations celebrate the radiance with which Jacobsen praised the complex beauty of the Earth; Robert Hedin focuses on the countryside, creature, and star poems; and Roger Greenwald draws difficult emotions from Jacobsen's charged last poems, composed while his wife struggled with fatal illness—as when he remembers their bitter-cold wedding day during World War II:

Road to the church was blocked with barbed wire.
I remember we clambered over the rail fence of the parsonage.
—Hey, your dress is caught
—no, not there—over there.
We tramped the furrows of an ice-crusted potato field, up to the minister who was in his surplice and had the Scriptures ready.
—Love is a path you must walk, he says. Yes, we said.
But my lord what muddy feet we had!
When we got in bed that night we cried a dab—both of us. God knows why.
And then the long life began.

Rolf Jacobsen was born in 1907 and lived his adult life north of Oslo. He worked as a journalist and newspaper editor and played a critical role in introducing modernism to Norwegian poetry. His poetry has been translated into nearly thirty languages. A member of the Norwegian Academy of Language and Literature, he was honored with many prizes and awards, including the Norwegian Critics' Prize and the Grand Nordic Prize from the Swedish Academy. Jacobsen died in 1994.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781556591655
  • Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
  • Publication date: 10/1/2001
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 212
  • Series: A Kagean Book Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Robert Bly is one of the most influential poets, translators, and editors of his generation. He is the author of numerous books, including the National Book Award-winning Silence in the Snowy Fields and the iconic (and best-selling) Iron John.

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Just Delicate Needles
It's so delicate, the light.
And there's so little of it. The dark
is huge.
Just delicate needles, the light,
in an endless night.
And it has such a long way to go
through such desolate space.
So let's be gentle with it.
Cherish it.
So it will come again in the morning.
We hope.

Table of Contents

Homage to Rolf Jacobsen 3
Country Roads 9
Odda 11
Heredity and Environment 13
Moss, Rust, and Moths 15
Sunflower 17
My Tree 19
Dies illae 21
The Pavane 23
The Fly in the Telescope 25
The Age of the Great Symphonies 27
The Lonesome Balcony 29
from The Glass Shop 31
Light Pole 33
Morning Crows 35
The Mothers 37
Guardian Angel 39
Play 41
The Old Women 43
-When They Sleep 45
Old Age 47
Night Music 49
Melancholy Towers 51
Stave Churches 53
Snail 57
Hand and Mouth 59
Moon and Apple 61
A Path through Grass 63
Women's Sleep 65
God's Heart 67
May Moon 69
Are They Waiting for a Star? 71
Where Do the Streets Go? 73
The Buses Long to Go Home 75
In Countries Where the Light Has Another Color 77
Haydn 79
Memories of Horses 81
The Old Clocks 83
In the Large Parks 85
Towers of Bologna 87
Seabirds 91
The Silence Afterwards 93
The Morning Paper 97
Red Sunset 99
Whispered 101
May at the Window 103
Metro 105
Sssh 107
Belvedere 109
The Art of Flying 111
Some People 113
Road's End 115
We Never Notice 117
But We Live 119
Come Back 121
Antenna-Forest 125
The Sky-high Houses 127
Problem II 129
Breathing Exercise 131
Look 133
Weevils, Daddy Longlegs 135
Knitting Needles, Needle and Thread 137
Just Delicate Needles 139
Tick-tick, Tick-tick 141
"Part Way" 143
Thoughts at Lake Sjodal 145
Trees in Autumn 147
Suddenly. In December 149
Room 301 153
Barbed-wire Winter 155
The Sewing Machine 157
Did I Know You? 159
It Was Here 161
The Fireflies 163
About the Author 165
About the Translators 167
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    Posted April 6, 2002

    Great poetry!

    I had the opportunity to go to a poetry reading where Robert Hedin read some of the poems from this book. I found them all to be wonderful and will be picking up a copy of this book ASAP.

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