Selected Poems

(Hardback, Second Edition)

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Born in 1907. Halldis Moren Vesaas is a leading woman of Norwegian letters. Her work includes twelve volumes of poetry, an autobiography, and translations. This volume marks her first appearance in English and contains over five decades of work starting with her first book. 'Harp and Dagger', which originally appeared in 1929. Her poems take their

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"Wier's poems explode with variety, particularity, whirlwinds of detail and mystery, shrinkwrapped though they are: memoirs, dialogues, choral performances witnessing scenes both weird and familiar," -Rain Taxi Dara Wier's Reverse Rapture is a mosaic whose colossal proportions contradict the mundane character of its countless self-contained tesserae ... those who stay with it will find themselves face to face with a world whose eerily sharp focus suggests recent satellite photographs of Mars. And they will never be the same again." -John Ashbery

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Dara Wier is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Remnants of Hannah (Wave Books, 2006) and Reverse Rapture (Verse Press, 2005). She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. She lives in Massachusetts, where she teaches and directs the MFA writing program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.