Reviews about Henrik Nordbrandt
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On
The Trembling Hand in November
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It is the master of the house Nordbrandt who has come,
written poetry for a month in winter and produced this
sequence: "Håndens skælven i november" - written without
even a momentary shaking of his hand, but often in its effect -
when things really get moving in the universe he can produce in
his ultra-short verses - close to shaking. To which it must be
remembered that you can also shake with laughter!
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Niels Barfoed in Politiken
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On
Departures and Arrivals
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Using means which are almost imperceptible, Nordbrandt
produces an extraordinarily evocative text which is very
dangerous indeed. It is achieved partly by cunning changes of
identity as here, where water is both an external phenomenon
and an inner condition; but this old water, which grows and
entices with suicidal motions: "does not know it has discovered
me". Such discreet paradoxes, working through the alien and
the strangely transilluminated subconscious, guide
Nordbrandt´s poems along on golden, intoxicated linguistic
waves. To read them is a kind of narcotic, deceptive things laid
out for us to observe. A great Dane, a great poet is selling
opium to the people. It promotes consciousness and
awareness and is an absolute necessity to take with you on
your journey away from both alienation and hatred of aliens."
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Torben Brostrøm, Information 15.5.74
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On
In Defence of the Wind beneath the Door
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"It is with a profound melancholy the poet views a transitory
world which offers him no place he can count as home, and no
identity. His portrayal of its decline consists of acute, ample
sensory perceptions which are linked to abstract concepts in
complicated chains of thought in which each link creates new
turns of phrase and condensed expressions. In this context the
poet creates close and startling connections between the words
themselves and between the ideas to which they give rise,
resulting in a profoundly original poetic reality which strikes the
reader with a remarkable firmness and strength, as though
issuing from some inner compulsion that is the result of a
dominant visionary talent and not some conscious purpose or
arbitrary intent.
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Bent Windfeld, Kristeligt Dagblad, 30.1.81
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