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Title: Alphabet by Inger Christensen, Susanna Nied ISBN: 0-8112-1477-X Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Classical form and contemporary images
Comment: Inger Christensen's Alphabet is a modern marvel: within the imposed form of the order of the alphabet, she constructs widely varying images, everyday-ish, fanciful, delicate, startling. "Constructs" may be the wrong verb because the language and the images appear effortlessly produced, as if they were simply evoked, although the most cursory look at the the collection shows the poet's painstaking attention to form and structure. The same quality of effortlessness, naturalness, obviousness, is exhibited by Susanne Nied's superb translation --indeed the kind of translation Gogol termed 'a transparent glass'. The personality, culture and idiosyncracies of the translator are nowhere in evidence. Subtly, skillfully, and imaginatively the Danish is transposed into English without the loss of a breath. Inger Christensen is a well-known poet in Denmark, indeed in Europe. Thanks to Susanna Nied she has been introduced to the American public, and may now at long last receive the recognition she deserves also in the US. It is a pleasure to see such lovingly crafted literature, and all involved in bringing it to the American public are to be congratulated: translator, publisher, distributor.
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Title: Blindsight by Rosmarie Waldrop ISBN: 0811215598 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 4, 1938-1940 by Walter Benjamin ISBN: 0674010760 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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