Light, Grass, & Letter in April by Inger Christensen and translated by Susanna Nied

This is poetry from Denmark.

Light, Grass, & Letter in April by Inger Christensen translated by Susanna Nied is published by New Directions. This is a Book originally written in Danish. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780811218696E12.

Light, Grass, & Letter in April, by Inger Christensen, is a Danish poetry collection from Denmark, translated from Danish by Susanna Nied, published by New Directions in 2011. It is a Danish collection by Inger Christensen, translated by Susanna Nied, that brings elemental perception into one of modern poetry’s great systems of attention. Christensen’s work is exact and radiant, capable of making light, grass, letter, and month feel like parts of a living grammar. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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