
alphabet
by Inger Christensen
Title:
alphabet
Author:
Inger Christensen
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
80 pages
Publisher:
Bloodaxe Books
ISBN-13:
9781852243104
EAN:
9781852243104
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
258
Dimensions (mm):
99 x 215 x 16
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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.












