AlphabetNew Directions Publishing, 2001 - 77 páginas 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. |
Contenido
On the Death of a German Philosopher | 1 |
Lord Barrenstock | 14 |
3 | 114 |
6 | 148 |
12 | 12 |
8 | 18 |
My Soul | 25 |
k love 26 | 26 |
snow 35 | 35 |
13 | 44 |
n nights 62 | 62 |
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Admire Angel animals apricot apricot trees exist Archie and Tina Barents Sea beautiful bird blackberries Bog is dood born Celts chicory Childe Rolandine cicadas cicadas exist colours cried cruel dark darling dead Dear death Deeply Morbid disgraceful and abominable doves dream earth Engine Drain Epicene eternity eyes friends Galloping girl grass guns exist happy heavenly henbane Holy human Icarus ice ages ice ages exist Inger Christensen inland sea Jabrun Jumbo laughed lions live Loin de l'Être look Lord Say-and-Seal melancholy Mother Muse Nagasaki never night numbers Oh Christianity oxygen Person from Porlock poem poet poor pretty rain Rapunzel river River Trent rose shepherd's purse soul speak spirit take Muriel tears there's things Tomb Voice walk Walt Whitman Waving but Drowning weep whisperings exist wind words write