Bøger af Inger Christensen

Sommerfugledalen. Et requiem. Anden udgave med grafisk arbejde af Jørgen Rømer. 1991.

Digte, stramt spændt op i et matematisk og alfabetisk system, som så meget stærkere udtrykker kærlighed til livet og menneskene og angst for menneskehedens grusomheder.

Samlet udgave af Inger Christensens to essaysamlinger, Del af labyrinten (1982) og Hemmelighedstilstanden (2000), i ny sammenfletning.

Inden sin død i 2009 deponerede Inger Christensen sit personlige arkiv på Det Kongelige Bibliotek. Et arkiv, der rummer alt fra fuldt færdige og signerede digte til fragmenter af længere romanprojekter, udkast og strøtanker, skrevet i hånden og på maskine, tegninger og tabeller, der tilsammen tegner omridset af Inger Christensens enestående forfatterskab; et arkiv, der indtil nu har været utilgængeligt for offentligheden. Som var mit sind lidt græs der blev fortalt er et blik ind i dette arkiv, der med sine 60 kapsler kaster nyt lys over Inger Christensens verden.

"Jeg bor i en hemmelig drøm" er nyfundne tidlige digte af Inger Christensen - og et unikt vidnesbyrd om den tidlige udvikling i et af dansk litteraturs mest betydningsfulde forfatterskaber. Her findes overrumplende digte om kærlighed og ensomhed side om side med vildtvoksende og komplekse tekster om natur, bevidsthed og sprog – og de hemmelige tråde, som forbinder det hele. Og gennem hver tekst strømmer – i stemninger, rytme, billedsprog og overraskende åbenbaringer – den særlige Inger Christenske tone, som har gjort hende til en af Danmarks største digtere.Digtene i "Jeg bor i en hemmelig drøm" er skrevet fra 1955 til 1960. Inger Christensen udgav sin første digtsamling, "Lys", i 1962.Bogen er redigeret af Inger Christensens søn, Peter Borum, som også har skrevet forord.

Indeholder digtsamlingerne Lys, Græs, Det og Alfabet, og digtene Brev i april, Digt om døden og Sommerfugledalen.

Inger Christensens anden roman fra 1969 har selve teksten som hovedperson! Og spørgsmålet om sammenhængen mellem sprog og identitet sættes her på spil. Romanen består blandt andet af en række breve skrevet af fem kvinder, der alle påstår at have forbindelse til manden Azorno...

Inger Christensens første roman fra 1964 er et eksperimenterende stykke prosa. En samfundssatirisk version af Kristuslegenden, omskrevet til en genkendelig, moderne verden.

De syv fortællinger i Nataljas fortællinger udgjorde Inger Christensens bidrag til fortællekredsen Septemberfortællingerne (Brøndums Forlag, 1988). Septemberfortællingerne var et af de kollektivprojekter, forlæggerparret Hans-Jørgen Brøndum og Iselin Hermann satte i gang. Selve Septemberfortællingerne har opnået klassikerstatus. Vagn Lundbye, som sammen med Erik A. Nielsen fik ideen til Septemberfortællingernes udformning, skrev også rammefortællingen til denne danske kollektivdekameron, hvori Barsebäck eksploderer, og syv mennesker derefter er på flugt fra atompesten, mens de over syv dage (lige så mange som skabelsesberetningens dage) fortæller hinanden historier over syv temaer: skæbnen, mordet, mødet, det at fare vild, spiritus, det at holde sin mund og til sidst om – ingenting. Syv forskellige forfattere skrev i 1988 samtidig de syv gange syv fortællinger, udstyret med hver sin fortælleperson.

Inger Christensens renæssancefortælling fra 1976. I årene 1460 - 1506 dekorerer den italienske renæssancemaler Andrea Mantegna et værelse i fyrst Lodovico III Gnazagas palads i Mantua i Norditalien. Fortællingens handling udspiller sig i denne periode og har de portrætterede personer fra Mantegnas væg- og loftsmalerier som hovedpersoner. En underholdende, gådefuld og filosofisk roman om kunsten som et middel til at udsætte døden.

To digtsamlinger i én udgave - genudgivelse af Inger Christensens LYS og GRÆS som vendebog.Inger Christensens debuterede i 1962 med digtsamlingen Lys og udgav derefter Græs i 1963. Temaerne kredser om fremmedgørelse, isolation og angst – det moderne menneskes tilværelse er præget af tomhed og meningsløshed, men i Inger Christensens digtning er der også håb at spore. Lys og Græs er lige nu kun tilgængelig i Inger Christensens Samlede digte og har ikke været i optryk i mange år. De to digtsamlinger udkommer samlet i en indbundet vendebog.

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

Inger Christensen blev i 1986 opfordret af teateret Hotel Pro Forma til at skrive en dramatisk tekst for fire personer til opførelse på kunstmuseer.  Teksten skulle være knyttet til tre dramatiske grundformer: monolog, dialog og triolog. Resultatet blev ÆTER, der udgives første gang i 2011, tre år efter Inger Christensens død.Indledning af Kirsten Dehlholm og Willie Flindt.

Inger Christensens lyriske hovedværk 'alfabet' (1981) kombinerer alfabetet med Fibonaccis talrække (1,2,3,5,8,13...). Digtet er spændt op i dette matematiske og alfabetiske system, som så meget stærkere udtrykker kærlighed til livet og menneskene og angst for menneskehedens grusomheder. Desuden læser Inger Christensen 'Sommerfugledalen. Et requiem' (1991), en klassisk sonetkrans, dvs. i alt 15 sonetter.

Inger Christensen, often cited as a Nobel contender, is one of Europe's most revered poets. Winner of the Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy and the Austrian State Prize for Literature, she is perhaps best known for her groundbreaking work Det (It), a cycle of poems published in 1969. Her first book published in the U.S., alphabet (New Directions, 2001), met with a tremendous response: "Seductive," said Boston Review; "A visionary reincarnation of the natural world in the atomic age," wrote Chicago Review. Butterfly Valley: A Requiem collects four medium-length works, each startling for its beauty and formal innovation. "Butterfly Valley" is a sonnet cycle which describes the glowing color and beauty of butterflies, and also their fragility and mortality. Memory is uncovered in the poem like the fluttering of their wings. In "Watersteps," the fountains and piazzas of Rome coalesce, brought alive in the imagination by the poem's shifting rhythms, lines, and overall structure. In "Poem on Death" the poet seeking immortality faces the whiteness of the page as the blankness of death: "it feels so odd! immodest to think / about death when no one / you know has died / it means that each time / you look at yourself in the mirror / you look death in the eye / without crying / like a clear and fully! comprehensible answer / but to questions / you dare not ask." "Meeting," written in extended sections, describes a "coming together," yet examines our failure to connect and the ability of language to overcome this.

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.

Light, Grass, and Letter in April is the first book in English to appear since the great Danish poet's death in January 2009. Light (1962) and Grass (1963), her first published works, introduce her genius for the music of everyday speech, and her approaches to the themes she'd pursue throughout her life: the primacy of nature, the enigmatic boundaries between the self and the other, and the role of language as a mediator between human experience and reality. Letter in April (1979), Christensen's most intimate book, examines love and loss, self and loss of self, echoing musical structures developed by the French composer Olivier Messiaen. It was written in collaboration with the Danish artist Johanne Foss, whose accompanying drawings helped to catalyze the poems.

Awarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied's translation of alphabet introduces Inger Christensen's poetry to US readers for the first time. Born in 1935, Inger Christensen is Denmark's best known poet. Her award-winning alphabet is based structurally on Fibonacci's sequence (a mathematical sequence in which each number is the sum of the two previous numbers), in combination with the alphabet. The gorgeous poetry herein reflects a complex philosophical background, yet has a visionary quality, discovering the metaphysical in the simple stuff of everyday life. In alphabet, Christensen creates a framework of psalm-like forms that unfold like expanding universes, while crystallizing both the beauty and the potential for destruction that permeate our times.

it is the masterwork by Danish poet Inger Christensen ("a true singer of the syllables," said C. D. Wright), often cited as a Nobel contender and one of Europe's most revered poets. On its publication in 1969, it took Denmark by storm, winning critical praise and becoming a huge popular favorite. Translated into many languages, it won international acclaim and is now a classic of modern Scandinavian poetry.it is both a collection of poems and a single poetic epic, forming a philosophical statement on the nature of language, perception, and reality. The subject matter, though, is down to earth: amoebas, stones, and factories; fear, sea urchins, and mental institutions; sand, sexuality, and song. The words and images of it recur in ways reminiscent of Christensen's other works, but here is a younger poetry, wilder, and crackling with energy. The marvelous and complex use of mathematical structure in it is faithfully captured in Susanna Nied's English translation, which won a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award.