Inger Christensen

"Butterfly Valley" is a sonnet cycle which describes the glowing color and beauty of butterflies, and also their fragility and mortality. Memory is uncovered in the poem like the fluttering of their wings. In "Watersteps," the fountains and piazzas of Rome coalesce, brought alive in the imagination by the poem's shifting rhythms, lines, and overall structure. In "Poem on Death" the poet seeking immortality faces the whiteness of the page as the blankness of death: "it feels so odd/ immodest to think/ about death when no one/ you know has died/ it means that each time/ you look at yourself in the mirror/ you look death in the eye/ without crying/ like a clear and fully/ comprehensible answer/ but to questions/ you dare not ask." "Meeting," written in extended sections, describes a "coming together," yet examines our failure to connect and the ability of language to overcome this.

A Requiem

Butterfly Valley

For the first time available in English, a selection of some of Inger Christensen's most insightful essays and poetic prose pieces

Condition of Secrecy

Awarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's translation of alphabet introduces Inger Christensen's poetry to US readers for the first time. Born in 1935, Inger Christensen is Denmark's best known poet. Her award-winning alphabet is based structurally on Fibonacci's sequence (a mathematical sequence in which each number is the sum of the two previous numbers), in combination with the alphabet. The gorgeous poetry herein reflects a complex philosophical background, yet has a visionary quality, discovering the metaphysical in the simple stuff of everyday life. In alphabet, Christensen creates a framework of psalm-like forms that unfold like expanding universes, while crystallizing both the beauty and the potential for destruction that permeate our times.

Alphabet

et requiem

Sommerfugledalen

Alfabet : digte

Inger Christensen's masterpieceit, translated brilliantly by Susanna Nied, and with an illuminating introduction by Anne Carson. itis the masterwork by Danish poet Inger Christensen ("a true singer of the syllables," said C. D. Wright), often cited as a Nobel contender and one of Europe's most revered poets. On its publication in 1969, it took Denmark by storm, winning critical praise and becoming a huge popular favorite. Translated into many languages,itwon international acclaim and is now a classic of modern Scandinavian poetry. itis both a collection of poems and a single poetic epic, forming a philosophical statement on the nature of language, perception, and reality. The subject matter, though, is down to earth: amoebas, stones, and factories; fear, sea urchins, and mental institutions; sand, sexuality, and song. The words and images ofitrecur in ways reminiscent of Christensen's other works, but here is a younger poetry, wilder, and crackling with energy. The marvelous and complex use of mathematical structure initis faithfully captured in Susanna Nied's English translation, which won a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award.

Alfabet

Alfabeto

Inden sin død i 2009 deponerede Inger Christensen sit personlige arkiv på Det Kongelige Bibliotek. Et arkiv, der rummer alt fra fuldt færdige og signerede digte til fragmenter af længere romanprojekter, udkast og strøtanker, skrevet i hånden og på maskine, tegninger og tabeller, der tilsammen tegner omridset af Inger Christensens enestående forfatterskab; et arkiv, der indtil nu har været utilgængeligt for offentligheden. Som var mit sind lidt græs der blev fortalt er et blik ind i dette arkiv, der med sine 60 kapsler kaster nyt lys over Inger Christensens verden.

Som var mit sind lidt græs der blev fortalt

Alfabet & Brev i april

Ljus

Samlet udgave af Inger Christenens to essaysamlinger, Del af labyrinten (1982) og Hemmelighedstilstanden (2000), i ny sammenfletning.

Essays. Hemmelighedstilstanden / Del af labyrinten

A startling and gorgeous work by Denmark's most admired poet finally available in English translation. Awarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's translation of alphabet introduces Inger Christensen's poetry to US readers for the first time. Born in 1935, Inger Christensen is Denmark's best known poet. Her award-winning alphabet is based structurally on Fibonacci's sequence (a mathematical sequence in which each number is the sum of the two previous numbers), in combination with the alphabet. The gorgeous poetry herein reflects a complex philosophical background, yet has a visionary quality, discovering the metaphysical in the simple stuff of everyday life. In alphabet, Christensen creates a framework of psalm-like forms that unfold like expanding universes, while crystallizing both the beauty and the potential for destruction that permeate our times.

alphabet

A leading Denmark poet presents a tale in the style of a logic puzzle or house of mirrors in which two men--one who is a writer and the other who is the main character in the writer's novel--interact in ways that bring into question which of them is real and which is not, a dynamic that is complicated by the writer's impregnation of five different women. Original.

Azorno

Hanns Grössel

Digt, som i sonetkransens stramme og krævende form spænder barndommens natur op mod dødens uafvendelighed

Inger Christensen

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