[New-Poetry] Danish poet Inger Christensen has died at the age of 73

[jforjames at aol.com]

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/248956,danish-poet-inger-christensen-dies-at-age-73.html

Copenhagen - Danish poet Inger Christensen, often mentioned as a possible Nobel Literature Prize winner, has died at the age of 73, her Danish publisher said Monday. Christensen died Friday, publisher Gyldendal said. 


In 1964 she started to write full-time following the publication of the poetry collections Light (1962) and Grass, the following year. 

Works that stand out in her production include the large collection of poems called It (Det) from 1969, where she explored both social and political issues as well as contrasting love and hate. 


The rules of language and mathematics as well as musical composition also inspired her. 


"Numerical ratios exist in nature: the way a leek wraps around itself from the inside," she said of Alphabet from 1981 where she used the alphabet and the Fibonacci mathematical sequence. 
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