Sudden Sky
Selected Poems
Published on 15. September 2001
86 pages
978-1-77131-255-4 (ISBN)
Description
A Sudden Sky is a book of northern poems with crystalline images and lines, fragile graceful poems that speak of fragments, of the moment between open and closed eyes, of the human need for embrace. These poems note the spaces between things -- always a gap, a failed connection, like radio waves caught in the sky.
Gernes has called poetry "a resistance movement," explaining, "A poem gives us the possibility of hearing our own voices. While the media offer us the world in small pieces, which are experienced as chaos, poetry seeks connections."
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Person
Ulrikka S. Gernes was born in 1965 in Sweden of Danish parents. At the age of twenty-two she moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, already a published and highly acclaimed poet. Her first collection, Natsværmer (Moth), was published in Denmark in 1984, when she was eighteen years old. Since then she has published an additional ten collections, all of them received gratefully in the Danish press. She is also the author of two books for children, as well as many short stories, songs, and various contributions to literary anthologies, art catalogues, magazines, newspapers and Danish National radio.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- From Natsværmer (Moth, 1984)
- Eternity
- In the Shadow of a Dream
- Don't Speak of Dust and Roses
- Blue Morning
- Elegy
- Trilobite
- Leaf Fall
- Metamorphoses
- Memories Fade
- Black Birds Liberate the Wind
- Black Skies
- From Englekløer (Angel Claws, 1985)
- These Days
- You Kneel
- Found on the Beach
- On Waiting
- In the Park
- Black Shadow
- At the Window
- October's Bridges
- I Have a Blue Mountain Chain
- From Hjortehjerte (Deer Heart, 1987)
- Silk
- November
- Scar
- I Came Here to Find You
- The Watery Globe
- From Skriftsteder (Scriptures, 1989)
- Faces in the Crowd ...
- The Water Under the Stars ...
- Whom You Dream into ...
- For a Moment I'm Forgotten ...
- Without a Single Word ...
- For Nothing ...
- From at (To, 1990)
- To Walk in a Circle ...
- To Appear ...
- To Balance above Fear ...
- From Gribbenes Himmel (Vultures' Sky, 1993)
- The Stranger
- Moon Nail
- Mad Bird
- Grandmother
- Carrying Sorrow
- Not a Poem
- Hotel
- Exile
- Sloughing
- Travel
- From Til (For, 1995)
- Imploding Sky
- The Witness
- Entreaty
- Thaw
- Photography
- In the Old City
- In the Desert
- Days
- From Kamikaze (1999)
- The Moon Knows ...
- I Refuse to Accept ...
- You Know Those Nights ...
- If I Say That White Horses ...
- Your Name is Written ...
- From Now on I Will Always ...
- New Poems
- Birthday at the Assistens Cemetery
- The Pattern of Dead Insects
- The Cannibals
- Author Biography
- Translators' Biographies
