{"product_id":"at-the-great-door-of-morning-selected-poems-and-translations-9781556595042","title":"At the Great Door of Morning: Selected Poems and Translations","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"There isn't a flaw or misstep or a lack of humility on a single page. . . . I invite you to turn to just one page, to any page, and to let what's there wash over you with its beauty, its clarity, its precision, and its delicately balanced emotional weight.\" --Ted Kooser\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Robert Hedin is one of the quietest, most spiritually sensate poets of our time.\" --Olga Broumas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Every poem is a creation myth,\" writes poet Robert Hedin. This long overdue retrospective, spanning forty years of patient and painstaking work, highlights Hedin's original poems, translations of Norwegian poets, and includes the aphoristic essay \"Field Notes.\" Hedin's poems--elegant, spare, and devoid of artifice--detail themes of Midwestern life, the natural world, ocean liners, and airships. A profound, essential volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnable to Write, I Decide to Move Out with the Finches \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis morning I'm going to drag my desk\u003cbr\u003eOut into the backyard and set it down\u003cbr\u003eBy the birdbath, near the flowerbed\u003cbr\u003eOvergrown with weeds. And the black\u003cbr\u003eLeather armchair where I like to read\u003cbr\u003eI'll lug out under the two young maples, \u003cbr\u003eAlong with the Persian rug, the tall\u003cbr\u003eGoose-necked lamp, the books, the CDs, \u003cbr\u003eEven the huge unruly fern in the corner.\u003cbr\u003eI'm going to haul it all outside, out\u003cbr\u003eInto the open air where it's quiet, \u003cbr\u003eWhere I won't be bothered . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Hedin\u003c\/b\u003e is the Founding Director of the Anderson Center for the Arts, and author of eight books of poetry and several translations from the Norwegian. He lives in Red Wing, Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Hedin: Robert Hedin is the Founding Director of the Anderson Center for the Arts, and is the author of eight books of poetry and several translations from the Norwegian. He has taught at Pitzer College Writer's Conference, Duke University Writers' Conference, Eastern Kentucky Writers' Conference. His poems and translations have been published in American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, and Poetry. He lives in Red Wing, Minnesota. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50855467319570,"sku":"9781556595042","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c4295056-ac9c-4aa3-8844-6f7ac926498c.jpg?v=1737481213","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/at-the-great-door-of-morning-selected-poems-and-translations-9781556595042","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}