...spare, psalmlike poems....Together, the poems in this beautifully translated selection...provide us with the autobiography of a poet who felt most at home during winter, in solitude. Hauge deserves a larger American readership, and this book may summon it. --Publishers Weekly (Hauge's) poetry is miniaturist, pictorial, and ruminative; personal in that his experience, cognitive and sensual observations, and intentions are everywhere in it. Yet it isn't at all confessional or self-assertive....He is a man who knows where he is and helps us feel that we can know where we are, too.--Booklist 'If you have a tiny farm, you need to love poetry more than the farm. If you sell apples, you need to love poetry more than the apples.'--Robert Bly, from the introduction Olav H. Hauge, one of Norway's most beloved poets, is a major figure of twentieth-century European poetry. This generous bilingual edition--introduced by Robert Bly--includes the best poems from each of Hauge's seven books, as