Per Højholt is one of the most influential and radically experimental poets of the post-World War II generation in Denmark. Højholt is difficult to categorize: to some in Denmark, he is known as a popular performer of humorous monologues; to others, as an esoterically modernist poet and essayist; and to still others, as an ironic (even postmodern) writer of short tales of the fantastic. In all his roles as poet, theorist, critic, performer, and prose writer, Højholt has inspired a younger generation of writers, not least in their struggle with the literary modernism that had become dominant by the 1950s and 1960s. Although the subject of several book-length studies as well as many articles in Danish, Højholt remains little known outside of Denmark and is relatively unknown even in the rest of Scandinavia, although some of his poems have been...