"telling where the wind goes"
Sandburg, Hamsun, Ponsot, Meyers, Boruch
Carl Sandburg:
Knut Hamsun (tr. from Norwegian by George Egerton):
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Marie Ponsot:
Bert Meyers:
Marianne Boruch:
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As a Norwegian I was excited to see a Norwegian author I had never heard of. Then I was disappointed to read up on his adoration of hitler.
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My grampa had a mason jar that read “Norwegian pencils” filled with pencils that had erasers on each end.