Leaf-huts And Snow-houses

by Hauge, Olav H.; Fulton, Robin

• ISBN13: 9780856463570
• ISBN10: 0856463574
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Anvil Press Poetry

Summary

Olav H. Hauge(1908-"1994) lived nearly all of his life in his native Ulvik in Western Norway, where he worked as a gardener. His poetry is now seen as one of the main achievements of 20th--century Norwegian literature. Though deeply rooted in the local landscape which he evokes so memorably, Hauge's poetry has a kinship in background and temperament with that of Robert Frost, while also sharing the wry humour and cool economy of William Carlos Williams.

Author Biography

Robin Fulton, Scottish poet, editor and translator, has lived in Norway since 1973. He is a notable translator of Scandinavian poetry whose versions of Swedish poets received the Artur Lundkvist Award in 1977 and Swedish Academy Awards in 1978 and 1998

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 11
from Embers in the Ashes (1946)
Black Crosses	p. 19
from Beneath the Crag (1951)
The Birch	p. 21
The River-Girl	p. 22
I Shake Snow off Young Trees	p. 22
Thin Ice	p. 24
Beneath the Crag	p. 25
The Fire Mountain	p. 26
Behind the Mountain of Loneliness	p. 27
The Stone God	p. 28
You Want Only to Be	p. 28
The Sea	p. 29
The Fisherman and the Sea	p. 30
Tongue and Bell	p. 31
from Slowly the Woods Redden in the Gorge (1956)
Steel	p. 33
One Thing You Knew	p. 34
Do Another Man a Favour	p. 35
Show Us Your Field of Rye	p. 35
Kin	p. 36
Seven Winds	p. 37
Putting Out	p. 37
The River on the Other Side of the Fjord	p. 38
Meeting	p. 39
Slowly the Truth Dawns	p. 40
A Seagull	p. 40
There's Still Time	p. 41
Spring Fjord	p. 41
Radiant Spaces	p. 42
from On the Eagle's Tussock (1961)
Singing Again	p. 43
Don't Give Me the Whole Truth	p. 43
I Open the Curtain	p. 44
To a Mountain	p. 44
On the Shore	p. 45
Evening Clouds	p. 45
The Message-Stick	p. 46
The Sawhorse	p. 46
The Story of Ch'u Yuan	p. 47
To Li Po	p. 48
Rock-Slip	p. 49
Smoke	p. 50
An Old-Fashioned Norwegian	p. 51
The Chopping Block	p. 52
It's Cold in Big Houses	p. 52
Winter Day	p. 53
Snow Evening	p. 54
Beneath the Stars	p. 55
Winter Still Lives in the Light	p. 55
Spruce Forest	p. 56
Song, Tread Lightly on My Heart	p. 56
The Cornfield	p. 57
from Drops in the East Wind (1966)
The Truth	p. 59
Everyday	p. 60
We Are Not Sailing on the Same Sea	p. 60
It Doesn't Matter	p. 61
The Mountain-Wind	p. 61
Erratic Boulder	p. 62
In My Father's House	p. 62
Across the Swamp	p. 63
The Owl	p. 64
Ophelia	p. 64
Up on the Heights	p. 65
Kerb Stones	p. 66
One Word	p. 67
The Weathercock	p. 67
A Grain	p. 68
Wall	p. 68
Winter Has Forgotten	p. 69
Winter Morning	p. 69
The Rivers Meet	p. 69
And I Was Sorrow	p. 70
Spring by the Fjord	p. 70
The Wind Has So Much to Tell This Spring	p. 71
Spring in the Mountains	p. 72
Willow	p. 73
The Cat	p. 73
Morning by the Fjord	p. 73
Autumn Fishing	p. 74
The Islet	p. 74
The Log	p. 75
Seed	p. 75
Skerries	p. 75
You Were the Wind	p. 76
The Windmill	p. 76
This Red Scar	p. 77
In the Hen-Yard	p. 77
One Ought	p. 78
The River Rises	p. 78
The Scythe	p. 79
The Saw	p. 79
Bertolt Brecht	p. 80
Watchman	p. 80
Arrow and Bullet	p. 81
The Sword	p. 81
Nothing's Wrong	p. 82
Don't Use Sandpaper	p. 82
Verse	p. 83
Old Poet Has a Go at Being a Modernist	p. 83
The Nesting Cliff	p. 83
I Have Three Poems	p. 84
What I Remember Best	p. 84
Rotted Tree-Stump	p. 85
Summer Nearing its End	p. 85
When Autumn Comes	p. 85
The Mirror	p. 86
They Want Away	p. 86
Green Apples	p. 86
The Mountain	p. 87
The Aspen	p. 87
The Birch	p. 88
Briar	p. 88
The Rainbows	p. 89
When I Waken	p. 89
Pine-Torch	p. 90
Floor	p. 90
Blue Musicians	p. 91
It's the Dream	p. 92
from Ask the Wind (1971)
Overnight the Grass Has Turned Green	p. 93
T'ao Ch'ien	p. 94
Time to Gather In	p. 95
I Chopped Down the Big Apple Tree by the Window	p. 96
The Log-Boat	p. 97
Sunny Day in March	p. 97
There Stands a Hazel-Stump	p. 98
A Farm Has a Bow and Arrow as its Mark	p. 99
Georg Trakl	p. 100
William Blake	p. 100
Gerard de Nerval	p. 101
The Last Spider	p. 102
Dead Tree	p. 103
Leaf-Huts and Snow-Houses	p. 103
Read Lu Chi and Make a Poem	p. 104
I See You've Learnt	p. 104
A Poem Every Day	p. 105
Don't Stand There Shouting on a Hilltop	p. 105
I Was Singing of a Kindling-Stick	p. 106
The Old Poet Has Made a Verse	p. 107
In the Parker Pen	p. 107
Cold Day	p. 108
Midwinter. Snow	p. 108
After Winter	p. 109
Snowmen in a Green Hayfield	p. 109
Back Home	p. 110
I Have Lived Here	p. 110
I Look at the Postmark on Your First Letter	p. 111
I Aim a Little High	p. 111
A Letter's Coming	p. 112
Poor Old Thing	p. 112
Horses and Tramps	p. 112
The Little Timber Sledge	p. 113
Strange Fish	p. 114
He's a Human Being, Like You	p. 114
That Man	p. 115
There are Omen-Bearers	p. 116
Weights	p. 116
The Christmas Sheaf	p. 117
You Don't Hang Your Hat on a Sunbeam	p. 118
I Lose Myself in Day-Dreams	p. 119
No Car, No Plane	p. 120
An Order Has Gone Out	p. 120
I'm Drifting	p. 121
The Road-Roller	p. 121
I Look at an Old Mirror	p. 122
From War-Time	p. 122
The December Moon 1969	p. 122
New Year 1970	p. 123
I Look Over the Scythes Before Mowing	p. 123
Solitary Pine	p. 124
Ask the Wind	p. 124
from A Few Blades of Grass (1980)
Mountains No Longer Entice Me	p. 125
Many Years' Experience with Bow and Arrow	p. 126
I Empty the Ash-Drawer	p. 126
New Table-Cloth	p. 127
Two Boats on the Fjord	p. 127
I'll Have to Think of Doing Something Wrong	p. 128
Up Through the River Valley	p. 128
Evening Service	p. 129
Company	p. 129
To a Lady Who Sent Me a Record of Bach and Handel	p. 130
Sleep	p. 130
The River Murmurs	p. 131
I Pause Beneath a Lamppost One Snowy Evening	p. 132
Egil	p. 133
Paul Celan	p. 134
After Reading Guillevic	p. 135
The Big Scales	p. 135
Mountains Are Heavy Things to Move	p. 137
Barometer	p. 138
How Long Have You Been Sleeping?	p. 139
It's High Time	p. 139
Before the Last Day	p. 140
Stare Miasto	p. 140
Snow in Castille	p. 141
I Pass the Arctic Circle	p. 141
I Pause Beneath the Old Oak One Rainy Day	p. 142
Leaves Loosen	p. 143
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