New and Selected Poems by Knud Sørensen
Translated from Danish by Michael Favala Goldman
Published by Spyuten Duyvil Press 2020
Dual-Language Danish-English
Selected poems by one of Denmark’s most renowned rural authors.
A great companion volume to the Sørensen poetry collection, Farming Dreams.
Out in nature
some words have hidden themselves
some down in the loam
some in the oat bells
and some
behind the tree foliage
and up in space
there are unheard tones
seeking words
they can merge with
and when they succeed
when words and tones unite
we are filled
with the soul of the landscape.
“Knud Sørensen’s formidable literary output bears a vulnerability, an embracing gentle warmth, and a penetrating apprehension of emotional depth in commonplace events.”
– Dorthe Nors, Danish author of Karate Chop
