Inger Christensen (458 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. The lord of Mantua, Prince Lodovico, invites the eminent painter Andrea Mantegna to his palace to decorate one of the rooms. The painting is very slowly completed and the prince's secretary records its progress in his diary, which also features gossip about what is going on in the palace.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. A captivating experimental novel about the Italian Renaissance by the Danish master, whose sensuous language resonates with cosmic urgency (Columbia Review).

Paperback. Condition: Good. A captivating experimental novel about the Italian Renaissance by the Danish master, whose sensuous language resonates with cosmic urgency (Columbia Review).

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Paperback. Condition: Good. For the first time available in English, a selection of some of Inger Christensens most insightful essays and poetic prose pieces.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Inger Christensen's masterpiece it, translated brilliantly by Susanna Nied, and with an illuminating introduction by Anne Carson.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. For the first time available in English, a selection of some of Inger Christensens most insightful essays and poetic prose pieces.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. 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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Paperback. Condition: Good. Inger Christensen, often cited as a Nobel contender, is one of Europe?s most revered poets. Winner of the Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy and the Austrian State Prize for Literature, she is perhaps best known for her groundbreaking work Det (It), a cycle of poems published in 1969. Her first book published in the U.S., alphabet (New Directions, 2001), met with a tremendous response: ?Seductive,? said Boston Review; ?A visionary reincarnation of the natural world in the atomic age,? wrote Chicago Review. Butterfly Valley: A Requiem collects four medium-length works, each startling for its beauty and formal innovation. ?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.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Known primarily for her poetry, Inger Christensen (1935-2009) remains one of Denmark's most distinguished and original authors. Natalja's Stories, modeled after Boccaccio's Decameron, takes an usual approach to the theme of migration by focusing on the shifting ground of meaning itself. It is a tale told to the narrator by her grandmother-about her mother, "abducted" by a Russian from Copenhagen: taken to Russia, she tries to flee the Revolution; she dies and her ashes are carried back to Denmark. But the story is told and retold in marvelous ways, digressing playfully (often hilariously), and involving murders and absurd characters, with wonderful repeating motifs and passages. Natalja's Stories springs surprise after surprise, and as one Danish critic put it: "instead of a conventional heartbreaking story of loss and disaster, the book appears as a tantalizing account of a character seizing the moment, leaving the past behind, and becoming someone else-offering, in fact, a deconstruction of the usual take on migrant fate as a tragic narrative.".…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Inger Christensen, often cited as a Nobel contender, is one of Europe's most revered poets. Winner of the Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy and the Austrian State Prize for Literature, she is perhaps best known for her groundbreaking work Det (It), a cycle of poems published in 1969. Her first book published in the U.S., alphabet (New Directions, 2001), met with a tremendous response: "Seductive," said Boston Review; "A visionary reincarnation of the natural world in the atomic age," wrote Chicago Review. Butterfly Valley: A Requiem collects four medium-length works, each startling for its beauty and formal innovation. "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.…