"Epilogos," from it: with an introduction by Anne Carson translated from the Danish by Susanna Nied.(Excerpt)

From: The American Poetry Review | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: Christensen, Inger | Copyright information

The following feature is an excerpt from it [c] Inger Christensen, which is forthcoming from New Directions Press. 

 
    ... If I could start in total silence, slip into the first 
    sentences, hide there as in water, flowing, go on until the first 
    little ripples appeared, almost words, almost sentences, more and 
    more....--Inger Christensen (1)

THIS MUST BE WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO HEAR HESIOD IN THE EIGHTH century BC recite his cosmogonic poems. Like He...

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