What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium

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Kim Simonsen Randi Ward

What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium

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Kim Simonsen, Randi Ward

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English

Deep Vellum Publishing
01 December 2025

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

Nordic Council Literature Prize nominee Kim Simonsen introduces a new poetics to Faroese literature rooted in natural history, philosophy, and the materiality of all things.

The rhetorical title of this collection posits the crisis that is underway. Simonsen asks: as a species among species, all composed of the matter of the universe, how has our compulsion toclassify everything hierarchically estranged us from ourselves, each other, and Earth'secosystems? Simonsen challenges our anthropocentric pursuit of knowledge, exploringhumankind's relationship with itself as an element of the natural world. What good does it do fora person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium follows the struggles of itsnarrator as he reckons with intensifying estrangement from his fellow organisms, graduallyturning to the greater kinship of matter to find continuity, connection, and solace.

By: Kim Simonsen
Translated by: Randi Ward
Imprint: Deep Vellum Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781646053728
ISBN 10: 1646053729
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 01 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kim Simonsen is a Faroese writer. He is the author of seven books, as well as numerous essays and academic articles. In 2014, Simonsen won the Faroe Islands' National Book Award for his poetry collection What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium. His newest poetry collection was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2024. Randi Ward is a poet, translator, lyricist, and photographer from West Virginia. She earned her MA in Cultural Studies from the University of the Faroe Islands and has twice won the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen Prize.