At the Great Door of Morning Selected Poems and Translations

“Every poem is a creation myth,” writes poet Robert Hedin. This long overdue retrospective, spanning forty years of patient and painstaking work, highlights Hedin’s original poems and translations of Norwegian poets and includes the aphoristic essay “Field Notes.” Hedin’s poems—elegant, spare, and devoid of artifice—detail themes of Midwestern life, the natural world, ocean liners, and airships. A profound, essential volume.