To the Outermost Stars by Stein Mehren, trans. Agnes Langeland A Herring Famine and although little of her

and although little of her work has survived and little is known about her

and of home

Using a mix of versed and unversed passages

Jo Shapcott

Shams Nadir

To the Outermost Stars by Stein Mehren, trans. Agnes Langeland A Herring Famine and although little of herStein Mehren, Norwegian poet and playwright, writes in the language of the heart, weaving his themes and imagery into a kind of baroque music, in poems that swell and fall like symphonies. Writing about love and desire, and the despair that often attends them, he weaves together classical love stories and intimate expressions of love in daily life to create a tapestry of the strongest human emotions. Stein Mehren "is one of Norwegian literature's