I think I picked this up at a sale a couple years ago?
This is a very shiny book — not only the cover, but the interior pages as well.
It’s really good, of course. Jan Erik Vold is perhaps the most important Norwegian poet, and the illustrations from Kverneland work well.
Illustrating poetry isn’t easy — you can be too literal (and bore the reader by repeating what’s written) or you can be too abstract (and basically just be wallpaper for the text). Kverneland avoids both problems admirably.
Ikkje (1997) by Jan Erik Vold, Steffen Kverneland




