When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back
Carl's Book
Published on 3. September 2019
Book
Hardback
152 pages
978-1-56689-560-6 (ISBN)
Description
In March 2015, Aidt's 25-year-old son died in a tragic accident. Chronicling the few first years after that devastating phone call, this work is at once a sober account of life after losing a child and an exploration of the language of poetry, loss, and love.
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Language
English
Place of publication
MN
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
248 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56689-560-6 (9781566895606)
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Naja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen. She is the author of eleven collections of poetry, a novel, and three short story collections, including Baboon, which won the 2008 Nordic Council Literature Prize, Scandinavia's highest literary honor. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages.
Denise Newman is a translator and poet who has published four collections of poetry. She has translated two books by Denmark's Inger Christensen. Her translation of Naja Marie Aidt's short story collection Baboon won the 2015 PEN Translation Prize.