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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: alphabet
• Author: Inger Christensen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80
• EAN: 9781852243104
• ISBN: 1852243104
• ID: 04296536
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Weight: 120 g
• Dimensions: 99 × 215 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. May 2000

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