Selected Poems of Cecil Bdker
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Köp båda 2 för 594 krA small group of social outcasts form a reluctant community on an abandoned farm in rural Denmark in the 1800s. Betrayal, flight and redemption, framed by relationships stretched across social standing, age and gender, The Water Farm brings their ...
Cecil Bødker paints a brilliant portrait of Malvina’s journey from abused and speechless child-woman, nurtured by the love and care of inhabitants of The Water Farm, to the lion-hearted champion of other abused and speechless girls an...
whether it’s a butterfly “kicking off its cocoon,” larks singing “across flat farm country,” a dawn that “kneels in the grass / quenching its thirst / in the damp footprints of night,” or the poet’s own “urge to be a squirrel,” the poems in cecil bødker’s inheritance are grounded in the physical world and transformed by her alert and always surprising imagination. michael goldman’s faithful translations bring us nearly four decades of this danish poet’s work—equalling both its subtle music and astonishing clarity.
thom satterlee,
winner of the american-scandinavian foundation translation prize
Cecil Bdker (b. 1927) is one of contemporary Denmark's most highly awarded and prolific female authors. She has written 59 books including poetry, novels for children and adults, short stories and plays. Her Stories about Tacit, a collection of 11 connected short stories, was published in 1971, forming the first book of The Water Farm Trilogy. Best known for her young-adult fiction books, in 1976 she received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Writing for her lasting contribution to children's literature. In 1998 she was awarded the Grand Prize of the Danish Academy for her body of work as a writer.