Time Ends With an Empty Shell: by Christian Stokbro Karlsen
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~ by bonniemcclellan on February 22, 2011.
Posted in Art and Observation, International Poetry Month, Poetry and Translation
Tags: Alzheimer's, Christian Stokbro Karlsen, International Poetry Month 2011, IPM 2011 poetry, poesi, poetry, Tiden ophører ved en tom skal, translation
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“Incomplete objects”: love this.
We’re all building lives with incomplete objects. Finding them in our incomplete children, our precious fragments.
Thanks for your comment, which means a lot to me; in a way your reading of that line becomes a reference to Eliot’s “a heap of broken images”.
The poem’s form (as is the form of the collection from which it was taken) was inspired by a Swedish fyrtiotals-poet, who wrote a collection of “shattered sonnets” back in the fourties 🙂