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  Inger Christensen

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  Inger Christensen (1935-2009) was both a virtuoso and a paradox. Her fiction, drama, essays and children’s books won her wide acclaim in Denmark and other European countries, but it is her poetry – spanning a forty-year period – that best reveals her versatility and depth. Her poetry reflects a complex philosophical background, yet her most complex poetic works have enjoyed wide public popularity. Many of her poems have a visionary quality, yet she is a paradoxically down-to-earth visionary, focusing on the simple stuff of everyday life and in it discovering the metaphysical as if by chance.In alphabet, Christensen creates a framework of psalm-like forms that unfold like expanding universes, crystallising into words both the beauty and the potential for destruction that permeate our world and our times.‘The ecological crisis forms the starting point for a part ecstatic homage to the world and nature, which in spite of everything is still found: partly in the active sense that it exists, partly in the passive sense that it is discovered and understood – by the poet and by us.’ – Erik Skyum-Nielsen‘Inger Christensen’s use of systems in no way inhibits the evolution of her poetry. On the contrary, it is as if the poetry comes about by virtue of the systems; as if it emerges in the interplay and friction with a random, but fixed order. In alphabet, Inger Christensen has created a system by combining the alphabet with Fibonacci’s numeric sequence, in which each number is equal to the sum of the two preceding numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 etc. alphabet is about the relationship between people and nature and, like it, is itself a form of creation. With the word exist as the pivot, the poems move – from the first wondering confirmation apricot trees exist – out into the world to life and death, the planet and calamity.’ – Christian Egesholm

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  Peace by Piece

  Tessa

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  How does a child fight the devil? Tessa’s father began coming in her bedroom during a time when she should have been focused on toys instead of on shielding herself from a predator. Despite her attempts to keep him out, nothing would deter him. The man who was supposed to provide for and protect her as a child took her innocence and changed her forever.
  
  Through essays and poetry, Tessa reveals a heartbreaking glimpse into the life of a sexual abuse victim as she did everything in her power to survive her personal hell. While sharing how she became a good pretender who wore many different masks, Tessa describes a horrifying cycle of rapes—not just from her father—but by other family members as well. As she matured and attempted to work through the aftereffects of the abuse, Tessa discloses how she finally came to realize that the only way she could ever move forward into healing was to recognize and take control of the abuse—and stop letting it control her. Through faith, inner-strength, and a determination to live, Tessa proves the incredible power of the human will to survive.
  
  Peace by Piece shares the true story of an incest survivor as she learns to take charge of her destiny, keep the faith, and somehow endure her battle with the devil.

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  Abused & Rejected

  Carolyn Lightsey

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  I live in a small town. I write about real life and real people. I write about my feelings and the things I've seen. I am writing about my real life. I have been rejected. My life has been unhappy. I am a grandmother now trying to make it on my own. I am telling you my story in the book I have written. It is about real things that have happened in a real life. I have written poems and different things. If you want to read about unhappiness, read this book. To all women: be careful. Don't let your guard down. It could happen to you.

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