Tóroddur Poulsen

trans. by Matthew Landrum


Notes from the Gutter

this morning
i’m not afraid
of anyone

even the darkness
seems almost
homespun

like the faith
you walked
away from

 

Tóroddur Poulsen is a leading Faroese writer, musician, and artist. He has published over thirty books since his 1984 debut poetry collection, Dregs.

Matthew Landrum is the author of Berlin Poems (A Midsummer Night's Press) and translator of Katrin Ottarsdóttir's Are the Copper Pipes in Heaven (The Operating System). He lives in Detroit.

 
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