The Dream We Carry

by Hauge, Olav H.; Bly, Robert; Hedin, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781556592881
• ISBN10: 1556592884
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-01
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Pr

Summary

"Sage and plainspoken - and bearing resemblance to Chinese poetry - Olav Hauge's compact, classically restrained poems are rooted in his training as a farmer and an orchardist, his deep reading in world literatures, and a lifetime of careful attention to the beauties and rigors of the western Norwegian fjord region. His spare imagery and unpretentious tone range from bleak to unabashedly joyous - an intricate interplay between head, heart, and hand." "This bilingual edition - introduced by Robert Bly, and translated by Bly and Robert Hedin - includes poems from Hauge's seven books, as well as a gathering of his never-before-translated last works."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Homage to Olav H. Hauge
Ocean	p. 5
Conch	p. 7
Slowly the Truth Dawns	p. 9
The Gold Rooster	p. 11
Don't Come to Me with the Entire Truth	p. 13
I Open the Curtains	p. 13
Evening Clouds	p. 15
To Li Po	p. 17
Smoke	p. 19
It's Cold in Big Houses	p. 21
Kuppern on Skates at Squaw Valley	p. 23
Barley Field	p. 25
This Is Not the Kingdom of the Poor	p. 27
Truth	p. 31
The Everyday	p. 33
We Don't Sail the Same Sea	p. 35
There Is Nothing So Scary	p. 37
Erratic Boulder	p. 37
Across the Swamp	p. 39
Ogmund Riding Home	p. 41
I Stand Here, Do You Understand	p. 43
To the Memory of Old Vamrak	p. 45
Up on Top	p. 47
One Word	p. 49
Let Me Be Like the Dung Beetle	p. 49
Winter Has Left Behind	p. 51
Winter Morning	p. 51
And I Was Sorrow	p. 53
You Are the Wind	p. 53
In the Chicken Yard	p. 55
Scythe	p. 55
Bertolt Brecht	p. 57
Poem	p. 57
The Old Poet Tries His Hand at Being a Modernist	p. 59
I Have Three Poems	p. 59
Today I Saw	p. 61
Today I Understood	p. 61
Green Apples	p. 63
Briar Rose	p. 63
This Is the Dream	p. 65
Tao Ch'ien	p. 69
Harvest Time	p. 71
Anxiety	p. 73
Dead Tree	p. 73
Leaf Huts and Snow Houses	p. 75
Read Lu Chi and Make a Poem	p. 77
I See You've Learned	p. 79
One Poem a Day	p. 81
The Old Poet Has Made a Line	p. 83
In the Parker Pen	p. 83
Cold Day	p. 85
Midwinter. Snow	p. 85
Snowmen in the Green Hayfield	p. 87
I Have Lived Here	p. 87
I Look at the Stamp	p. 89
I Aim a Little Higher	p. 89
You Ride On Still	p. 91
Not by Car, Not by Plane	p. 93
Looking at an Old Mirror	p. 93
From the War	p. 95
December Moon 1969	p. 95
Animal Grave	p. 97
Mountains Don't Attract Me Anymore	p. 101
Years of Experience with Bows and Arrows	p. 103
New Tablecloth	p. 105
For Bodil Who Sent Me a Record of Bach and Handel	p. 105
The Dream	p. 107
I Stop under a Lamppost on a Snowy Evening	p. 109
The Big Scales	p. 111
When All Is Said and Done	p. 115
Mountains Are Hard to Move Around	p. 117
How Long Did You Sleep?	p. 119
To My Fingers	p. 121
I Pass the Arctic Circle	p. 123
The Carpet	p. 125
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