Inger Christensen, often cited as a Nobel contender, is one of Europeās 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 workĀ Det (It), a cycle of poems published in 1969. Her first book published in the U.S.,Ā alphabetĀ (New Directions, 2001), met with a tremendous response: āSeductive,ā saidĀ Boston Review; āA visionary reincarnation of the natural world in the atomic age,ā wroteĀ Chicago Review.Ā Butterfly Valley: A RequiemĀ collects four medium-length works, each startling for its beauty and formal innovation. āButterfly Valleyā 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 āWatersteps,ā the fountains and piazzas of Rome coalesce, brought alive in the imagination by the poemās shifting rhythms, lines, and overall structure. In āPoem on Deathā the poet seeking immortality faces the whiteness of the page as the blankness of death: āit 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.ā āMeeting,ā written in extended sections, describes a ācoming together,ā yet examines our failure to connect and the ability of language to overcome this.
This book title, Butterfly Valley (A Requiem), ISBN: 9780811215794, by Inger Christensen, Susanna Nied, published by New Directions (June 17, 2004) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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