Lars Amund Vaage: Outside the Institution — Selected Poems
Published 15 April 2010
Translated
by Hanne Bramness & Frances Presley
Paperback, 102pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £9.95
/ $17
ISBN 9781848610750
The first collection in English by Lars Amund Vaage, one of the most significant poets and novelists of his generation in Norway.
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Praise for Lars Amund Vaage's poetry:
"Lars Amund Vaage has already established himself as an important
prose writer; with his poetry debut, Det andre rommet (The other
room) he also shows himself to be an important poet . . . These are poems
that are very accomplished in their form and their melancholy and intelligence
take hold of you . . . There are grand and quiet revelations here." (Aasne
Linnestå)
"Outside the institution is a rare and sensitive collection of poems that opens rooms which make us wiser, more generous and clear-sighted . . . Poetic and well written . . . Fascinating reading full of meaning." (Kirsti Mathilde Thorheim)
"Unusually strong about understanding and insanity . . . Vaage's
book is brave and good . . . The poems are written 'outside the institution'.
Yet they peek in. And the crazy ones come out . . . Lars Amund Vaage's
poetry collection is a good attempt at approaching madness from other sides
than normal prose, like many of his previous books have done too" (Tom
Egil Hverven)
"Poems about the mad in the right way . . . The whole book is marked
by the author's confident pen, a language which in its specific way
makes scenery and emotions, questions and answers arise and weather in front
of our eyes. A poetry alive and unruly which makes us keep reading because
it is interesting. The poems about the mad are written with a contagious
energy and a diction which makes us want to find out where it is all going
. . . A poetry collection about madness, cars and love has to appeal, right?"
(Helge Torvund)
"Strong images of psychiatric patients. Lars Amund Vaage is a great
name within prose writing in Norway. The fact that he is also a fine poet
is less known . . . Natural and transgressing . . . Powerful images of the
devastation of illness, incomprehensible actions, words and sounds . . .
this is a collection of poems with as good as no superfluous words."
(Knut Ødegård)
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