Black Widow Pr

Tarjei Vesaas, one of Scandinavia’s greatest fiction writers of the twentieth century, was also one of Norway’s major modern poets. As often happens in such cases, the fiction has overshadowed the poetry, especially in translation. In Through Naked Branches, Roger Greenwald, an award-winning poet and translator of Scandinavian poetry, presents a selection he has drawn from Vesaas’s six volumes of poetry with the aim of revealing the distinctive sensibility and voice of Vesaas the poet. The Norwegian texts of the forty-six poems appear facing the English versions, which won the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize. Originally published in 2000 in English only, this is a new and revised and fully bilingual edition of this title which won major awards and critical praise upon original publication.