Singing to the Stars
Uppdal, Kristofer: Åt songa tå stjernorKristofer Uppdal (1878–1961) is probably best known as the writer of the great prose work " The Dance through the Shadows". Nevertheless, he made his greatest mark in verse, as an innovator. In modernist Norwegian poetry he is the link between Sigbjørn Obstfelder and Olav H. Hauge.
It is therefore a significant event that we now have a selection of the unpublished poems Uppdal penned in the 1920s. Singing to the Stars is the title of a selection he planned around 1925. It continues where The Altar Fire (1920) left off and, with its wide range of themes, is different from the following collection, "The Gallows Mountain" (1930).
Jan Erik Vold was given access to the mass of material bequeathed by Uppdal to the National Library. Only twenty or so poems were previously known.
First published: 2005, Aschehoug Fiction
Kristofer Uppdal: Biography and bibliography
