Pia Tafdrup is one of Denmark?s leading poets, the winner of the Nordic Prize ? Scandinavia?s most prestigious literary award ? for her collection Queen?s Gate, published in English by Bloodaxe in 2001. This new translation of her work combines two more recent collections, The Whales in Paris and Tarkovsky?s Horses, which comprise the first and second parts of a quartet written over ten years: the third and fourth parts are The Migrant Bird?s Compass and Salamander Sun (published in English by Bloodaxe in 2015 as Salamander Sun and other poems). The poems of The Whales in Paris span the moment of conception to eternity. Life is seen as a confrontation with what is bigger than oneself: love, desire and death, primordial forces that are present even in our very modern civilisation. Those great forces of existence form the territory of The Whales in Paris: above all, desire and death, illuminated...
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