ABSTRACT
In the more than twenty years that have passed since Dan Turell left Planet Earth, his legacy has continued to grow in a way that is telling of his very special position, somewhere between being a cult figure, a Danish heir to the American Beats, and a cultural phenomenon with a broad popularity. As a top-level tennis player from his teenage years and almost half a century on, Torben Ulrich is regarded as a sports legend in Denmark. Peter Laugesen had made his debut in a literary magazine in 1962, and by 1965 he was working on his first book-length manuscript, Landskab, which he self-published two years later. For a long time Laugesen has been considered to be a maverick in Danish poetry, a poet's poet, but in later years he has managed to find a delicate balance between maintaining his poetic "street credibility" and being the subject of great appreciation from academia.
