Inger Christensen (1935-2009) was both a virtuoso and a paradox. Her fiction, drama, essays and children's books won her wide acclaim in Denmark and other European countries, but it is her poetry spanning a forty-year period that best reveals her versatility and depth. Her poetry reflects a complex philosophical background, yet her most complex poetic works have enjoyed wide public popularity. Many of her poems have a visionary quality, yet she is a paradoxically down-to-earth visionary, focusing on the simple stuff of everyday life and in it discovering the metaphysical as if by chance. In Alphabet, Christensen creates a framework of psalm-like forms that unfold like expanding universes, crystallising into words both the beauty and the potential for destruction that permeate our world and our times.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books LTD
ISBN-13
9781852243104
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90561059
Product Key Features
Book Title
Alphabet
Author
Inger Christensen
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Poetry
Publication Year
2000
Number of Pages
80 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
138mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Inger Christensen
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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