Condition of Secrecy
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Translated from: dan
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780811228114
Subjects: Danish literature, history and criticism
Description: "[Christensen] formulates with increasing clarity the basis of her approach to writing, and provides insights into how she composed specific poetry volumes. Some essays are autobiographical (with memories of Christensen's school years during the Nazi occupation of Denmark), and others are political, touching on the Cold War and Chernobyl. The Condition of Secrecy also covers the Ars Poetica of Lu Chi (261-303 CE); William Blake and Isaac Newton; and such topics as randomness as a universal force and the role of the writer as an agent of social change"--Publisher's description.