Ask a Bookseller: 'The Copenhagen Trilogy' introduces Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen to English readers
We couldn't let April pass by without some focus on poetry, and this week’s recommendation checks both the poetry and memoir boxes. Deborah Reed of Cloud and Leaf Bookstore in Manzanita, Ore., recommends “The Copenhagen Trilogy” by Tove Ditlevsen (1917–1976), which was released as a single volume in English in February.A Danish poet whose work was contemporary with Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, Ditlevsen lays bare her coming-of-age, intimate family life and deep love of language in this memoir series, subtitled “Childhood,” “Youth" and “Dependency.”Ditlevsen describes growing up in a bleak…
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