Product Description: Poetry. Rolf Jacobsen is a poet of silence and light. Born in 1907, he is considered Norway's first modern poet and its greatest living poet. Jacobsen sees the secret connection between things. With a penetrating vision, he writes of the city and machines as perhaps no-one else, and in other poems he looks deep into nature, seeing the snail in the grass "who wanders on a kiss...read more

Product Description: North in the World presents 121 poems by Rolf Jacobsen (1907-1994), one of Norway's greatest modern poets. Garnering the highest praise of critics, Jacobsen won many of Norway's and Sweden's most prestigious literary awards, including the Swedish Academy's Dobloug Prize and the Grand Nordic Prize, also known as the "Little Nobel...read more

A large gathering of poetry and translations by one of our foremost contemporary poets.

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