Poetry

Vördnadens väg

Book

“Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.” — Ramana Maharshi

John Douglas Andersson leads us down the ending road of his writing. His realm of thought has been banished to the “periphery of folly,” his reality to the “outskirts of dreaming.” The contradictions are clear, but so are the reflections — those that unveil the dichotomy behind every verse, every poem he has previously written. The evident as well as the obscure in Vördnadens väg, “Road of Awe,” capture precisely this, both figuratively and literally, leaving no stone unturned, no fire unlit. We sense a light in the darkness, a hope in the desolation, a rebirth in the visions. The writer stands at a crossroads; to embrace life or bid it farewell

“The beautiful serpent man has arrived. In the poetry book Vördnadens väg, I let him speak. It is his words that take shape in the ether, the ether that takes shape in mine… He emerges from the darkness of desperation to give me a chance to be reborn in the light, in a new world that challenges and contrasts the one I was born into, seeing and experiencing it as the only real, true, and tangible, despite it never being anything more than an illusion among many others.” — John Douglas Andersson

Published by GML Förlag, Stockholm, Sweden. Publication date: September 28, 2020 ISBN: 978–91–88851–66–6

Buy in Swedish bookstores and online: GML (Publisher’s bookstore), Adlibris and Bokus.

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Vördnadens väg is currently being translated into English.

John Douglas Andersson is a Swedish independent poet. He has published three books of poetry, Ormmänniskan (“Serpent Man,” 2015), Det ordlösas gåva (“Gift of the Wordless,” 2016), and Vördnadens väg (“Road of Awe,” 2020), all of which will be featured in the upcoming anthology Livets bok, “Book of Life”, set to be published in the fall of 2024.

© 2024 John Douglas Andersson.