The Red Place
- Schrijver: Lars Amund Vaage (Noorwegen)
- Soort boek: gedichten
- Origineel: Den raude staden (2014)
- Engelse vertaling: Anna Reckin, Hanne Bramness
- Uitgever: Shearsman Books
- Verschijnt: 1 oktober 2020
- Omvang: 106 pagina’s
- Uitgave: Paperback
Flaptekst van de dichtbundel van de Noorse dichter Lars Amund Vaage
Into the epic sweep of Lars Amund Vaage’s long poem The Red Place come many presences in many dimensions: the living, the dead and – part-mythic, part-realist, part-surreal – the ghosts of earlier selves. Mother progresses through a series of ‘red places’ until she reaches somewhere ‘Her feet would go no further.’ Father ‘stands by me / outside of me / whistling notes / that don’t exist.’ We see the poet at the piano as a child and as an adult, and the joys and poignancy of music sound powerfully throughout. Moving tenderly between farmland and the city, great concert halls and a family going out in the evening on the tractor to find music, Vaage’s poetry is rich, simple, complex, and wise.