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Alphabet

"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."--Jacket
eBook, English, 2001
New Directions, New York, 2001
1 online resource (77 pages)
9780811223683, 081122368X
918287566
[a] apricot trees
[b] bracken
[c] cicadas
[d] doves
[e] early fall
- [f] fisherbird herons
[g] given limits
[h] whisperings [i] ice ages
[j] june nights, atom bombs
[k] love, somewhere, fragment, hydrogen bombs
[l] life, in mid-November, snow, don't panic, from a train, cobalt bombs
[m] metal, layered light, as if, it's new for me, following the sleepwalkers, defoliants, alphabets
[n] nights, so here I stand, the Gavle canal, there's something specific, dreamers