Inger Christensen Alphabet, into English by Susanna Nied. New copy. “doves exist, dreamers, and dolls killers exist, and doves, and doves haze, dioxin, and days, days exist, days and death, and poems exist, poems, days, death”
Soft Cell recorded a song that nicked its title from this book, a song about a man “who goes to Los Angeles and just sees how many people he can have in a weekend. It’s a soundtrack of loveless sex…”
Complete attractive two-volume set in slipcase. Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker and published Tokyo by Charles E. Tuttle, 1978. 2 fine softcover in original illustrated slipcase. XIX, 1090 pp. Illustrated with woodcuts. Slipcase with minor edgewear, name to free front endpaper, two pages with notes else fine, clean and well…