PRECIPICe is a literary magazine out of Ontario, Canada. The new issue just out contains a recommendable review of Scandinavian literature, including poems by Jørgen Leth and Niels Hav in my translations, one of which is this one from Leth's 1987 collection Hvordan de ser ud [How They Look]:
HOW THEY LOOK
How they look
not how they are
stop along the way
lay small things out
investigate what happens
vinyl flashes across the fields
a tree burning
a horse that looks up and listens
describe how they look
a person with an onion in their hand
a handful of earth with metal in it
not how they are
from Hvordan de ser ud [How They Look] (1987)
How they look
not how they are
stop along the way
lay small things out
investigate what happens
vinyl flashes across the fields
a tree burning
a horse that looks up and listens
describe how they look
a person with an onion in their hand
a handful of earth with metal in it
not how they are
from Hvordan de ser ud [How They Look] (1987)
