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<p>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 poetic works have enjoyed wide public popularity. Many of her poems have a visionary quality yet she is a paradoxically down-to-earth visionary focusing on the simple stuff of everyday life and in it discovering the metaphysical as if by chance 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.</p>