The Dedalus Press series of budget pamphlets presents works by
major voices in world poetry. Inger Christensen (1935 - 2009) was
one of Denmark's best-known poets and was widely celebrated
throughout Europe and the United States. She wrote several volumes
of poetry as well as novels, plays, children's books and essays,
winning many major European prizes and awards, including the
prestigious Nordic Prize in 1994. Butterfly Valley is a tour de
force, exploring the major themes of life, love, death and art. The
form is simple yet complex, a sequence of fifteen sonnets building
to a final sonnet of extraordinary power composed of lines taken
from the preceding fourteen sonnets in the sequence. Life, love,
art, all are transient - like the butterfly - yet beautiful, even
in their ephemerality. The translator Susanna Nied is a former
insructor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State
University in California. Her translation of Inger Christensen's
alphabet won the 1982 ASF/PEN Translation Prize.
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