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Informationen zum Autor Elias B . Rønnenfelt is a Danish musician and poet. He is lead singer and lyricist for Iceage, in addition to his work as a member of Marching Church, Vår, and numerous other groups and collaborations. Sunken Heights is his first book. Klappentext The debut book of poems from the acclaimed musician, lead singer and lyricist of Iceage, featuring Rønnenfelt's original Danish text and illustrations by Elizabeth Peyton Vorwort Social Media Campaign. International media attention. Iceage will be on tour Summer 2023. Author Instagram: @elias.ronnenfelt (22.9k followers) Band Instagram: @iceage (33.4k followers) Leseprobe A body in migration Face bathed in the flickering flashes of light, broken by passing articles A frame in boundless transportation Roams away, from one nearness and on to the next Always wanting more, an insatiable nothing you can never saturate It wants to drink from one mouth, grasp towards another Invited into forbidden rooms, picking locked doors Limping through each city, scouting towards lit windows The easiest man to seduce Tonight I can be your light, a shimmering half-defective lantern And you're so beautiful in its glow Zusammenfassung The debut book of poems from the acclaimed musician, lead singer and lyricist of Iceage, featuring Rønnenfelt's original Danish text and artwork by Elizabeth Peyton. Sunken Heights is a work of poetry in a grand tradition: a quest in verse through reverie and observation, equal parts enigmatically abstracted and grittily real. Presented in both the original Danish text and Rønnenfelt’s own English translation, Sunken Heights balances the poet’s reflections on the aggressive and primal present with strikingly romantic and surprisingly vulnerable musings on variations of love, delusion, and maturation in a smoldering world....
