'During those years when I lived a truly spiritual life, they called me sick and locked me up.' Intense forces are in play in the writings of Norwegian poet and diarist Olav H. Hauge. His Luminous Spaces is the life work of a restless mind and a troubled heart seeking insight into the spiritual, alert to the bleakness and beauties of nature, and intimate with philosophy and literature. His prose is rich, his poetry finely cut. Here is writing born of the need to know and the will to survive. Like the conch of which he wrote, his writings record the building of a soul to speak from solitude. -Marvin Bell Luminous Spaces spans seventy years of Olav H. Hauge's poetry with over three hundred poems, a third of which have never appeared in English. It also includes a generous selection from his four thousand pages of journals, previously unpublished in translation, and an intimate forward by his widow, Bodil Cappelen. Ocean This is the ocean. All serious, vast and grey. Yet just as the mind in solitary moments suddenly opens its shifting reflections to secret depths - so the ocean, too, one blue morning may open itself to sky and solitude. Look, says the gleaming ocean, I too have stars and blue depths. Olav H. Hauge (1908-1994) is one of the main poets of twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Olav Grinde is a writer and translator whose works include Night Open: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
White Pine Press
ISBN-13
9781935210801
eBay Product ID (ePID)
222089475
Product Key Features
Book Title
Luminous Spaces: Olav H. Hauge: Selected Poems & Journals
Author
Olav Hauge
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Poetry
Publication Year
2016
Number of Pages
420 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
228mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
652g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Olav Hauge
Translator
Olav Grinde
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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