Through Naked Branches Selected Poems of Tarjei Vesaas

"If everything in the living and dead world would sing to me, the language of their songs would contain the phrasings and turns and intersections of these poems."--Michael Burkard "Through Naked Branchesstartled and thrilled me. Tarjei Vesaas is a brilliantly original and speculative poet; in Roger Greenwald's elegant translations, he has for the first time found an equivalency in English that makes his virtues obvious. 'There is an endless seeing by no one,' Vesaas maintains, and his poems probe that 'seeing' in lyrics quite unlike anything most readers of modern poetry are accustomed to. These poems deserve a high place in the pantheon of world poetry."--Jay Parini "Poetry masterful in both its vision and its form."--Martin A. HansenGreenwald, Roger is the author of 'Through Naked Branches Selected Poems of Tarjei Vesaas', published 2000 under ISBN 9780691008974 and ISBN 0691008973.