The Roads Have Come to an End Now
Subtitle: Selected and Last Poems of Rolf Jacobsen (Kagean Book)
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: November 2001
Language: eng; nor
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781556591655
Subjects: Poetry; European - Scandinavian; General; Poetry / General; Jacobsen, Rolf; Translations into English
First sentence: En hvit morgen i juni klokken fire da landeveiene ennu var gra og vate gjennem skogenes uavladelige tunneller, hadde det gatt en bil over stovet der hvor mauren kom synlende ut men sin barnal nu, og blev vandrende rundt i det store F i &lt;&lt;Firestone>> som stod presset i landeveissandet over et hundre og tyve kilometer.
Description: An early champion of modernism, Jacobsen published a body of work that earned him international recognition and established him as one of Europe's great poets. This bilingual collection spans Jacobsen's fifty-year career and includes, for the first time in English, his final poems.