Night Open: Selected Poems

AUTHOR

Rolf Jacobsen

TRANSLATOR

Olav Grinde

Considered the father of modern Norwegian poetry, Jacobsen’s work records the extraordinary changes that take place as we move from an agrarian to an industrial society. This book gathers work from all his published books.

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“Jacobsen is not an idylic poet, but a voice that warns against all that which threatens human joy. The poems, translated by Grinde, are splendid.”

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Olav Grinde is a writer and translator whose works include Night Open: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen. He lives with his wife Shelah, and they divide their time between Boston and Bergen, Norway. He runs small firm that offers professional copywriting and translation, as well as travel writing.

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Rolf Jacobsen was a Norwegian writer. Jacobsen could be said to be the first modernist writer in Norway. Jacobsen's career as a writer spanned more than fifty years. He is one of Scandinavia’s most distinguished poets, who launched poetic modernism in Norway with his first book, Jord og jern in 1933.

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