AlphabetNew Directions Publishing, 2001 - 77 pagine 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. |
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Antarctic Ocean apricot trees exist Arctic Ocean barely manage Barents Sea beating heart writes Beaufort Sea birch bird blackberries bloom blue bombs exist bracken exists chamomile chicory Christensen alphabet Translated cicadas exist closed brickworks clouds darkness is white death dioxin dolls doves exist doves in rain dreamers dreams early fall exists earth eider duck Eniwetok eternity eternity feather Finland Finnmark fisherbird herons exist forest fruit trees exist given limits exist grey-blue arching backs guns exist haze henbane hidden hydrogen Icarus ice ages exist ice drifts ice-light iceplant's impossible to remember Inger Christensen alphabet June nights exist light mention doves Nagasaki naiads names Novaya Zemlya numbers Pacific Ocean poem Romania sheep shepherd's purse somewhere Soviet Union Soviet Spitzbergen stars stone streams exists summer Susanna Nied there's solid ice Union Soviet Union vanishing walk whisperings exist wind that writes worn-down province write like wind writing of doves