Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: Works that stand out in her [Inger Christensen's]

production include the large collection of poems called It (Det) from 1969, where she explored both social and political issues as well as contrasting love and hate.

The rules of language and mathematics as well as musical composition also inspired her.

"Numerical ratios exist in nature: the way a leek wraps around itself from the inside," she said of Alphabet from 1981 where she used the alphabet and the Fibonacci mathematical sequence.

from Gulf Times: Danish poet Inger Christensen dead at 73
also ErasmusPC: CityPoem 70--Copenhagen

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