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Light, Grass, and Letter in April

Light, Grass, and Letter in April

Fosse, Johanne
Christensen, Inger
Nied, Susanna

Paperback

Series: New Directions Paperbook, Book 1187

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 0811218694
ISBN13: 9780811218696
Publisher: New Directions
Published: Jun 27 2011
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Awards: Literary Award
Light, Grass, and Letter in April is the first book in English to appear since the great Danish poet's death in January 2009. Light (1962) and Grass (1963), her first published works, introduce her genius for the music of everyday speech, and her approaches to the themes she'd pursue throughout her life: the primacy of nature, the enigmatic boundaries between the self and the other, and the role of language as a mediator between human experience and reality. Letter in April (1979), Christensen's most intimate book, examines love and loss, self and loss of self, echoing musical structures developed by the French composer Olivier Messiaen. It was written in collaboration with the Danish artist Johanne Foss, whose accompanying drawings helped to catalyze the poems.

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