Winter Lake, a collection |
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| Author | : Jan Oskar Hansen |
| Binding | : Paperback |
| ISBN | : 9788182533493 |
| Publisher | : Cyberwit.net |
| Pub.Date | : 2012 |
| Price | : $10 |
It is well- known that Jan’s works are always full of a daring spirit of outspokenness. This collection also has the stamp of a master touch. In the poems, he reveals a decisive aptness of words. Hansen is a born poet with a supreme gift of simplicity, and he always avoids labored vocabulary. P. B. Shelley’s lines are truly applicable to his poetry: “A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds”. His deepest individual gift is the faculty of spontaneous feeling, avoiding all that savors of stereotyped writing.
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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