# alphabet

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- Authors: [Inger Christensen](https://www.bookquiver.com/inger-christensen)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2000-05-25
- Genres: Poetry / Poems, Fiction: literary and general non-genre

## Description

Inger Christensen (1935-2009) was both a virtuoso and a paradox. Her fiction, drama, essays and children’s books won her wide acclaim in Denmark and other European countries, but it is her poetry – spanning a forty-year period – that best reveals her versatility and depth. Her poetry reflects a complex philosophical background, yet her most complex poetic works have enjoyed wide public popularity. Many of her poems have a visionary quality, yet she is a paradoxically down-to-earth visionary, focusing on the simple stuff of everyday life and in it discovering the metaphysical as if by chance In alphabet, Christensen creates a framework of psalm-like forms that unfold like expanding universes, crystallising into words both the beauty and the potential for destruction that permeate our world and our times.

## Editions

### alphabet

- Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
- ISBN: 978-18-5224-310-4
- Pages: 82
- Published: 2000-05-25
- Language: en_US