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”
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. Royal8vo. Original red cloth with overall well preserved jacket. This copy was Børge Houmann’s copy (not signed). Houmann, a prominent Danish communist and resistance fighter, was working a translation of Joyce’s novel Ulysses, but tragically could not find the translation after the War. The…