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
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2 Responses to “Time Ends With an Empty Shell: by Christian Stokbro Karlsen”

  1. “Incomplete objects”: love this.

    We’re all building lives with incomplete objects. Finding them in our incomplete children, our precious fragments.

    soulies said this on February 22, 2011 at 11:51 pm | Reply

  2. 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 🙂

    stokbro said this on February 23, 2011 at 11:51 am | Reply

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