Great White Book to See
Jan Erik Vold
Norway’s favourite poet.
Great White Book to See is a further development of the leaping, intuitive global poetry Vold began with Twelve Meditations and The Dreammaker Said. Within a frame of snow poems the book contains texts on childhood, falling in love, marriage, old age. On the poet’s parents and Arctic polar bears. On the Dead Sea scrolls and the rising ocean. On the difference between Jesus and Buddha. On resigning to the Great Whiteness that awaits us. The collection covers a historical period that spans from the battle of Thermopylae to the cross-country race Skarverennet.
