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    • 30 after thoughts (2021)
    • divisive / dismissive / missive (2018)
    • Light Requires Darkness (2018)
    • Seen From a Distance People Lose Their Eyes (2017)
    • Confessions of the Cold Light of Dawn (2014)
    • What Bits of Peace My Life’s Ensured (2014)
    • Poems Inspired by Paintings (2014)
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    • verden værker (2026)
    • De spor man efterlader sig (2017)
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      • The September Lyre
      • The Rose Altar
      • The Shadow of the Future
      • The Land Which Is Not
    • Gustaf Munch-Petersen
      • naked human
      • The Lowest Country
      • Towards Jerusalem
      • Nineteen Poems
    • Edvard Søderberg
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Known as “the strangest poetry collection in Danish literature”, this is the climax of Munch-Petersen’s surrealism. This is where the poet took his experimentation to the limit, and was discarded by the critics in the process.

Where content is concerned, there’s stille the same yearning for the Utopia of ‘The Lowest Country’. The Utopia, he felt, would have to be realized through the brother-/sister-hood he observed among the lower strata of society.

Category: Towards Jerusalem

  • Gustaf Munch-Petersen
  • Towards Jerusalem
15 Feb, 202015

Gustaf Munch-Petersen: presentation

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

under the Temple of BAALI slide –,I the 600th ofthe blue worms –I eat my wayahead through the copper mountain,whereon the Temple of BAALis placed –we brothers and sisters,we the 600 blue worms,we hateBAALand detest hisTemple –but we eat hismountainwith […]

  • Gustaf Munch-Petersen
  • Towards Jerusalem
15 Feb, 202015

Gustaf Munch-Petersen: to the apostle Søren

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

dear little brother Søren,do not letyour patheticmorning-soul disfigureyour of the Lordilluminated garnet cheekswith your half-heartedport wine tears – – – – | remember Søren,that it is a thousand foldbetter to haveseen the Lord your God’simage from your brandy’slight-coloured mountain,than to […]

  • Gustaf Munch-Petersen
  • Towards Jerusalem
15 Feb, 202015

Gustaf Munch-Petersen: wednesday at 16:15

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

the dove brush againstthe secretary’s temple –his engagement ring went downon the table –:I wish tosense a falcon’s nest and hearthe youngsters cry outin the flagstaff of life –I wish, tosee moose swima wading mile throughmoon-flood and swamp-sparklingsecrets –I wish, […]

  • Gustaf Munch-Petersen
  • Towards Jerusalem
15 Feb, 202015

Gustaf Munch-Petersen: for Poul

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

it is not like that –you CAN see throughthe heaviest darkness –it is completely different –you can turn around, andyou will justhave to walk a few stepsmore –you can change course, andyou will justhave to change courseonce more –when the newrealm comes likea clean […]

  • Gustaf Munch-Petersen
  • Towards Jerusalem
15 Feb, 202015

Gustaf Munch-Petersen: this life

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

everything about hu-mans isirrelevant andaccidental exceptthe path, they take –their stuff,their facesand their shoes –on the goodpaths walkthe good –,and on the evilpaths walkthe evil –everything else isGod’s entertainment musicon the roadtowards good, orGod’s entertainmentmusic on the roadtowards evil –the […]

  • Gustaf Munch-Petersen
  • Towards Jerusalem
15 Feb, 202015

Gustaf Munch-Petersen: new year’s

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

– in the yellow flower of the yearover a thousand distant roadsshines oldquenching tear –high high along crisp stemsdroplets clingingrun towards the forgetfulness of the sea –when every last tear has run,the earth will arise from the bathwith the surge […]

  • Gustaf Munch-Petersen
  • Towards Jerusalem
15 Feb, 202015

Gustaf Munch-Petersen: yuletide sun

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

green golden smoke sails from the peace of havannaand blows at middayrosy shades of sun through the conifersdown to earth’s stupidity – in the corners of the sun’s mouth is to be readthe truth about the earth:the earth is fine […]

  • Gustaf Munch-Petersen
  • Towards Jerusalem
15 Feb, 202015

Gustaf Munch-Petersen: from today on

Posted By K-M Skalkenæs

from today on the whole world is more different, than ever before – today has it, and thereby also I, entered a whole new phase – the earth, humanity and I myself run from today on unfathomable risks, and perhaps […]

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