We Own the Forests and Other Poems - Borli Hans
We Own the Forests and Other Poems - Borli Hans Hans Borli (1918-89) was born and lived in the wooded country of Hedmark in south eastern Norway. His days, however, were an enactment of his poetry.…
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We Own the Forests and Other Poems - Borli Hans
Hans Borli (1918-89) was born and lived in the wooded country of Hedmark in south eastern Norway. His days, however, were an enactment of his poetry. His days seem to have been divided into two separate parts: by day, he lived the physically demanding life of a lumberjack, but by night, he turned poet and spent the still, dark hours writing.
In a series of books beginning in 1945, he wrote more than eleven hundred poems. Borli's verse is alive with his experiences of the Norwegian forests - with the moods of sky and water, with the creatures that moved in air and woodland, and with the trees themselves. They form a poetic record of a life reminiscent in spirit, if not in form, of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass'.
This collection can only suggest the scope and richness of the poet's life-in-verse, but it includes many of his most admired poems. Sometimes lonely or even mystical, the
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