Poem

Eldrid Lunden

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Original language

Yes, we do sleepwalk

Yes, we do sleepwalk
I move in the necessary
blindness. It’s usually sunshine

© Translation: 2012, Annabelle Despard

Yes, we do sleepwalk

Ja, vi går i søvne
Eg rører meg i den nødvendige
Blindheit. Det er som regel sol

© 2005, Eldrid Lunden
From: Flokken og skuggen
Publisher: Aschehoug, Oslo

Eldrid Lunden

Eldrid Lunden

The poetic work of Eldrid Lunden is some of the most important, not only in Norway, but also in a Nordic context. Her status as writer has been strengthened by her position as director of Creative Studies at Bø in Telemark, Norway’s first academic writing academy, established on her initiative in the 1980s. Her influence on the younger generation of writers is enormous, not only as a poet, but ...

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But when you reach what touches you

Longing is silence

Now you see me, now you don’t

Emptiness

Yes, we do sleepwalk

Lacan’s emptiness

The ancient Greeks believed a stone fell to the ground

The birch does not develop

The daybright shadow

At the building site a bulldozer

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Yes, we do sleepwalk

Yes, we do sleepwalk
I move in the necessary
blindness. It’s usually sunshine

© 2012, Annabelle Despard
From: Flokken og skuggen

Yes, we do sleepwalk

Yes, we do sleepwalk
I move in the necessary
blindness. It’s usually sunshine

© 2012, Annabelle Despard

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