Vinci, Later
2005
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Poetry. Translated from the Danish by John Irons. Danish poet Morten Sondergaard has been living abroad and spent some time in the little Italian town of Vinci. The poetry in this collection is the result of that experience. It dramatizes various aspects of (post) modern reality - dreams, family life, architecture, sculpture - gathered together as a landscape through which the reader can wander - thoughtful, bemused, amused, but always as language's companion. "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. What I'm saying is: This is an astonishing collection"- Stuart Ross.
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Author
Morten Søndergaard
Author · 2 books
From 1989 to 1991, Morten Søndergaard attended the Danish Writer's school (Forfatterskolen) in Copenhagen, and obtained his MA in comparative literature at the University of Copenhagen in 1995. From 2002 to 2008 he co-edited the literary magazine Hvedekorn with Thomas Thøfner, and also co-founded the poetry magazine Øverste Kirurgiske (Upper surgery). In 2003 and again in 2007 he was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. He is married to Merete Pryds Helle. They lived together in Italy for 8 years before moving back to Copenhagen, first in the town Vinci, Tuscany, then in Pietrasanta. Søndergaard used his time in Italy as the basis for two of his works, Vinci, Senere and Processen og det halve kongerige.
