Splendid and surprising prose poems from one of Norway's most imaginative poetsThe sixty-one prose poems collected in The Mountains of Kong find magic in the little absurdities of everyday life and are populated by an unpredictable cast that includes kings and codfish and elephants, a couple looking for a surrogate for their tears, and a lemming on the run.Presented here in both English translations and their original Nynorsk, and with an introduct...

"There isn't a flaw or misstep or a lack of humility on a single page. . . . I invite you to turn to just one page, to any page, and to let what's there wash over you with its beauty, its clarity, its precision, and its delicately balanced emotional weight." -Ted Kooser"Robert Hedin is one of the quietest, most spiritually sensate poets of our time." -Olga Broumas"Every poem is a creation myth," writes poet Robert Hedin. This long overdue retrospective, spanning forty years...