Poetry. Translated from Norwegian by Anthony Barnett. BEYOND THE MOMENT is a completely new, revised edition of the translation first published by Anthony Barnett in 1988 under the title SELECTED POEMS. Tarjei Vesaas was born in Norway, where he spent most of his life as one of the country's finest, most prolific, and best-loved twentieth-century authors. His poetry is explicit in its themes of isolation, anxiety, and responsibility, yet it is also suffused with a ruggedly benign landscape, as it explores the frailty of human affections and the warmth of heart and home.