Poem

Eldrid Lunden

Side by side

At the building site a bulldozer

At the building site a bulldozer
has stood immobile all day. The sports field will soon
be finished. In the spring we can begin to find out
if anyone is fast enough
to win the race

At the building site a bulldozer

Borte på anleggsområdet har ein beltemaskin
stått urørleg i heile dag. Idrettsanlegget er snart
ferdig. Til våren skal vi begynne å finne ut
om det er noen som er raske nok
til å komme først i mål

Eldrid Lunden

(Norway, 1940)

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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At the building site a bulldozer

At the building site a bulldozer
has stood immobile all day. The sports field will soon
be finished. In the spring we can begin to find out
if anyone is fast enough
to win the race

At the building site a bulldozer

At the building site a bulldozer
has stood immobile all day. The sports field will soon
be finished. In the spring we can begin to find out
if anyone is fast enough
to win the race