{"product_id":"luminous-spaces-olav-h-hauge-selected-poems-journals-9781935210801","title":"Luminous Spaces: Olav H. Hauge: Selected Poems \u0026 Journals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"'During those years when I lived a truly spiritual life, they called me sick and locked me up.' Intense forces are in play in the writings of Norwegian poet and diarist Olav H. Hauge. His Luminous Spaces is the life work of a restless mind and a troubled heart seeking insight into the spiritual, alert to the bleakness and beauties of nature, and intimate with philosophy and literature. His prose is rich, his poetry finely cut. Here is writing born of the need to know and the will to survive. Like the conch of which he wrote, his writings record the building of a soul to speak from solitude.\"--Marvin Bell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLuminous Spaces \u003c\/i\u003espans seventy years of Olav H. Hauge's poetry with over three hundred poems, a third of which have never appeared in English. It also includes a generous selection from his four thousand pages of journals, previously unpublished in translation, and an intimate forward by his widow, Bodil Cappelen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Ocean\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is the ocean.\u003cbr\u003eAll serious, \u003cbr\u003evast and grey.\u003cbr\u003eYet just as the mind\u003cbr\u003ein solitary moments\u003cbr\u003esuddenly opens its\u003cbr\u003eshifting reflections\u003cbr\u003eto secret depths\u003cbr\u003e- so the ocean, too, \u003cbr\u003eone blue morning\u003cbr\u003emay open itself\u003cbr\u003eto sky and solitude.\u003cbr\u003eLook, says the gleaming ocean, \u003cbr\u003eI too have stars\u003cbr\u003eand blue depths.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlav H. Hauge \u003c\/b\u003e(1908-1994) is one of the main poets of twentieth-century Norwegian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlav Grinde \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer and translator whose works include\u003ci\u003e Night Open: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOlav Hauge: Olav Hauge (1908-1994) is one of the major figures of Norwegian poetry. He lived his entire life on a small farm in the fjordland of western Norway. He was the author of seven books of poetry, numerous translations, and several volumes of correspondence.\u003cbr\u003eOlav Grinde: 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"White Pine Press (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52103678099730,"sku":"9781935210801","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5c3ea868-d0a2-42de-ac1f-b8a929de683f.jpg?v=1773153378","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/luminous-spaces-olav-h-hauge-selected-poems-journals-9781935210801","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}