| Description |
77 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
"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."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
[a] apricot trees -- [b] bracken -- [c] cicadas -- [d] doves -- [e] early fall --- [f] fisherbird herons -- [g] given limits -- [h] whisperings [i] ice ages -- [j] june nights, atom bombs -- [k] love, somewhere, fragment, hydrogen bombs -- [l] life, in mid-November, snow, don't panic, from a train, cobalt bombs -- [m] metal, layered light, as if, it's new for me, following the sleepwalkers, defoliants, alphabets -- [n] nights, so here I stand, the Gavle canal, there's something specific, dreamers. |
| Language |
English translated from Danish. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Nied, Susanna, translator.
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| Added Title |
Alfabet. English
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| ISBN |
081121477X (alk. paper) |
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9780811214773 (alk. paper) |
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