A Step in the Right Direction - Softcover

Morten Søndergaard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1927040094 ISBN 13: 9781927040096

Publisher: Book*hug Press, 2012

Synopsis

Poetry. Translated from the Danish by Barbara Haveland. A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION is a series of meditations on walking. Divided into four major songs, or cantos, each one explores the act of walking from a different point of view: As a social activity; as an act of love; as a condition for thought; and as an inspiration for art. In this new collection, Morten Søndergaard continues a line of thought he first developed in Bees Die Sleeping and continued in VINCI, LATER (which was published in English in 2005).

"Morten Søndergaard carefully brushes the lint off our shoulders, then crouches behind the controls of his poems and does everything to dislodge us from our feet. As doomful and slapstick as Beckett, he gives voice to the ground we stomp all over, and the stuff aside from people that peoples our world."--Stuart Ross

About this title

About the Author:

Morten Søndergaard (born 1964) is a part of a generation of Danish poets that emerged in the early Nineties. Søndergaard's first collection of poetry, Sahara i mine hænder (Sahara in My Hands) was published in 1992. This debut collection has been followed by a succession of works which have won him both critical acclaim and a number of literary awards. Morten Søndergard's most recent publication is Processen og det halve kongerige (The Process and Half the Kingdom) (2010). His books have been translated into Arabic, English, German, French, Italian, Serbian and Swedish.

About this edition

• Publisher: Book*hug Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1927040094
• ISBN 13: 9781927040096
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Barbara J. Haveland