Torild Wardenær was born in 1951.
She attended courses at the Srivekunst-akademiet in Hordaland in 1993-94, studied literature and art history at the Universities of Stavanger, Oslo and Bergen. From 2001-2004 she made her Master Degree in literature at the University of Bergen.
She made her debut in 1994 with the collection of poems I pionértiden.
So far she has published nine collections of poems, four dramas and two translations from English. She has also participated on a number of crossover-projects with different artists, musicians, actors and writers, as well as in national and international poetry festivals. Since 1999 she has been a guest teacher in Creative Writing Programmes at Norwegian Universities in Bergen, Bø, and Tromsø.
Field studies II
The seaward approach calm and without engines across green lakes with mountains that/ descend into the water and Jalapeño birds in flight over them - how can I explain this:
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Perhaps we have slept our way through life
drifted like a sleepwalker from one love to the next
mumbled ourselves into the sovereign power of language
dreamt ourselves to the rim of realities
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In writing I must have reversed the numbers and automatically and with a firm
hand I have written 3002 instead of 2003. I simply take this as a sign that it will
become true that we will be there together, on a April day a thousand years
in the future.
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At any time at all I can be seized by a sudden madness of infinity and
also be possessed by all the lives that until now have been lost.
Possessed by the fact I myself have survived, by the days that consume lovers,
by the incessant listening to the body's red interior.
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What is this, skin deficiency, horn deficiency, blood deficiency?
You walk upright, butt and butt, are pale and slashed and frenzied, for passing
through too quickly has been banned, death has been banned
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