These are new poems by Knut Odegard, translated into English for the first time. The poems are written as short narratives and explore religion, personal reminiscences of growing up in Norway, on the wild and wonderful coast of Molde; the longer title poem is a mini-life of Judas Iscariot, an analysis of his meeting and dealings with the Christ, and of what brought him to the moment of betrayal.

Judas Iscariot and Other Poems

Literature & Fiction

Ødegård, Knut

Poetry

Dufour Editions

"Missa" is a long poem, its structure paralleling that of Britten's War Requiem. Knut's poem brings the dark and destructive forces in the human person into the Catholic Mass, which is performed in a space that accommodates all that is human...here, the dark mysteries and the splintered experiences find an answer in a larger context.

Missa: Poems (Poetry Europe Series)

McNeil, Brian

Degard, Knut

Dedalus Pr

<p>Selected Poems by Knut Odegard is a long-overdue opportunity for English language readers to survey a representative selection of poems by one of the finest contemporary Norwegian poets. Described as a poet who is "intensely aware of the sacred, yet who] visits the darkest and often the most shocking corners in his determination to sanctify those places" (Kenneth Steven, Modern Poetry in Translation), Odegard draws on both the illuminating short lyric and the significantly longer meditation or sequence (often working in parallel to the liturgy of the Catholic Church) to blur the line between personal anecdote and visionary perception. At once naturalistic and experimental, solemn and moving, and, by turns, hilarious and off-beat, Odegard's poems manage both to charm and chill in their honesty and simplicity. In the words of VartLand (Oslo's daily newspaper), "Norway does not have a court poet. But Norway does have a poet of European stature, in Knut Odegard." Here indeed is poetry "that deserves all the superlatives in the critic's vocabulary."</p>

Selected Poems

History & Criticism

Dedalus Press

Missa (Norwegian Edition)

J.W. Cappelen

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