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Author Aidt, Naja Marie, 1963- author.

Title When death takes something from you give it back : Carl's book / Naja Marie Aidt ; translated by Denise Newman.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2019.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  839.81 AIDT    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  839.8137 AID    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  839.81 AID    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  839.818 AIDT    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  839.8 AIDT    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description 133 pages ; 21 cm
Note "First published in Danish as Har døden taget noget fra dig så giv det tilbage: Carls bog (Gyldendal 2017)."
Summary "In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's son Carl died at twenty-five years old in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You, Give It Back describes the first year after that devastating phone call, until the shock slowly wears off. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child--showing how grief transforms your relationship to reality, your loved ones, and time--and a book about the language of poetry, loss, and love. How do you approach the impossible to write about your deceased child? The book's complex form enacts the rupture and process of assembling the pieces. There are short prose sections addressed to Carl and intense lyric passages. There are fragments from the present that merge with flashbacks and journal entries from the past. Quotes appear throughout from an array of literary voices, woven together with Naja Marie Aidt's own voice. This multifarious book defies genre or any singular description"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Aidt, Naja Marie, 1963- -- Poetry.
Aidt, Naja Marie, 1963- -- Family.
Parental grief -- Psychological aspects.
Sons -- Death -- Psychological aspects.
Bereavement -- Poetry.
Danish poetry -- 21st century -- Translations into English.
Aidt, Naja Marie, 1963- (OCoLC)fst00368434
Bereavement. (OCoLC)fst00830665
Danish poetry. (OCoLC)fst00887753
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
Poetry.
Added Author Newman, Denise J., translator.
Added Title Har døden taget noget fra dig så giv det tilbage. English
Other Form: Online version: Aidt, Naja Marie, 1963- author. When death takes something from you, give it back First U.S. edition. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2019 9781566895682 (DLC) 2018060464
ISBN 9781566895606
156689560X
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