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After Inger Christensen: New Danish Poetry

Katrine Øgaard Jensen introduces a selection of Danish poetry, originally featured in the December 2015 issue of Words Without Borders.

After Inger Christensen: Humans, Plants, and Planets in New Danish Poetry

By Katrine Øgaard Jensen

So what happens next in Danish translation?

Blue morning glories on a yellow background

Morning Glories by Suzuki Kiitsu. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Seymour Fund, 1954.

from “Everything Shimmers”

By Naja Marie Aidt

. . . the world shimmers / everything unimaginably possible . . .

Translated from Danish by Susanna Nied

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from “Third-Millennium Heart”

By Ursula Andkjær Olsen

I will remain unwritten.

Translated from Danish by Katrine Øgaard Jensen

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Face (still life)

By Niels Lyngsø

What’s the deal with your face, Dad?

Translated from Danish by Gregory Pardlo

from “Poems 2014”

By Theis Ørntoft

don’t remember how we ended up watching Rambo / but it was a disappointing experience.

Translated from Danish by Julia Cohen & Jens Bjerling