A Bar Fly and a Donkey |
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| Author | : Jan Oskar Hansen |
| Binding | : Paperback |
| ISBN | : 978-8182532182 |
| Publisher | : Cyberwit.net |
| Pub.Date | : 2011 |
| Price | : $8 |
Jan Oskar Hansen's latest collection A Bar Fly and a Donkey reveals that Hansen never forgets Aristotle s maxim: To think like a wise man but to express oneself like the common people. Hansen knows how to create with words the spell of a mysterious atmosphere. With this collection, he has acquired the position of a major English poet. These poems establish him as an eminent poet in modern times. In these most attractive Poems, Stories, Epigrams, Tanka and Senryu, Oskar s style is dramatic and direct. The reader will be illuminated by these poems. Oskar's imaginative phrases reveal a rare sense of the consummate artist. His flawless style always has exquisite finish. Nearly all his writings are full of crystalline charm.
Jan Oskar Hansen is a poet, story teller and seafarer, born in Stavanger, Norway. He joined the merchant navy at 15 and spent most of his life at sea until settling in the early 90's in Portugal. His poetry has been widely published in hard copy and online, worldwide. Reviewers have generally commented that a love and honoring of living things stands out in Hansen's work, and deep humility; that it reveals with unflinching honesty man's shortcomings in his efforts to love, telling what there is to tell in a first person, deeply resident universal voice.
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