Hauge in translation

I've been having fun flipping through various translations of Hauge's work. I like putting them next to each other and looking at the differences.

A couple years back, Luminous Spaces was published – a new collection of Hauge's poetry and selections from his journals, all translated by Olav Grinde. I haven't actually had a chance to read all of it properly yet, but for the fun of flipping through, it's very good – and there are quite a few in it that I haven't seen before. Overall, I find that his work has a very light, effortless feel to it, and it's really nice to view the poems that I do know from an entirely different perspective.

( Discussion of other volumes of translation )

( Four versions of 'Midvinter. Snø.' + my commentary )

( My translation of this poem )

...Anyway, there are about a million ways to translate this one, even though it's only three lines. and I like that. So, I'm looking forward to reading more from Luminous Spaces and then comparing the works there to other translations. It should be fun. Hopefully I'll get to it soon.