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A collection of poems about a municipality. With distinctive warmth and humanism, Gro Dahle describes people, animals and landscapes, while at the same time showing failures and shortcomings, failed policies, both well-intentioned and calculating. And hope! The border has to go somewhere, says the municipality. The municipality must start somewhere. The concept "municipality" used to be a rather dry word, but with the merger of many Norwegian municipalities with each other in 2020, the word became charged with emotion, commitment, and new content. In this collection of poems, we meet the doctor, the headmaster, the caretaker, the hairdresser, the badger, the maple tree, the mayor, the municipality's buildings, roads and pipes - and the municipality's dead
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