
A Step in the Right Direction
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"Morten Sondergaard carefully brushes the lint off our shoulders, then crouches behind the controls of his poems and does everything to dislodge us from our feet. As doomful and slapstick as Beckett, he gives voice to the ground we stomp all over, and the stuff aside from people that peoples our world."--Stuart Ross
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MORTEN SØNDERGAARD (born 1964) is a Danish writer. He is the author of several books, including two poetry collections that have been translated into English: A Step in the Right Direction, and Vinci, Later. He lives in Copenhagen.
BARBARA J. HAVELAND (born 1951) translates fiction, poetry and drama from Danish and Norwegian to English. Her lengthy C.V. features works by many leading Danish and Norwegian writers including Peter Høeg, Ib Michael, Jan Kjaerstad and Linn Ullmann. She has also translated poetry by other Danish poets such as Pia Juul and Nicolaj Stochholm and by the young Bosnian-born writer Alen Me kovi . Recent projects include new translations of three plays by Henrik Ibsen: The Master Builder, Little Eyolf and A Doll's House. She lives in Denmark.