[Stewart]

Originally Posted by Eric

I was actually looking at Vesaas' poetry only last week. His poems too have atmosphere. They have been translated into English by Roger Greenwald, in a book called "Through Naked Branches", Princeton University Press, 2000: THROUGH NAKED BRANCHES: SELECTED POEMS OF TARJEI VESAAS, translated and edited by Roger Greenwald .

That's a nice little edition, blingual too. I found myself reading the opener, Snø Og Granskog (trans: Snow And Spruce Forest), aloud in the original Norwegian. This YouTube video puts the poem to music.