Reviews about Pia Tafdrup
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On
Spring Tide
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It is the flow of images that brings the individual days and
poems to life. It is in the totality that the genetic code is firmed
up and the multiplication table works out. Meanwhile, the days
disappear - just listen to how beautifully the light dies ... This
place is the place of understanding, where everything is one,
behind the images of the forms of desire. With Springflod, Pia
Tafdrup has written her most beautiful and most powerful book
so far.
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Bo Green Jensen, Morgenavisen Jyllands Posten, 13.9.1985
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On
The Crystal Forest
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Crystal is frost and/or opulence, and both make sense: snow
crystals, frost, cold, but also splendour, ostentatious colours in
patterns, magnificent verses, which both ring like ice and break
into music. Pia Tafdrup is different, but still tied to nature which
she describes with skill and sensitivity, a poet with a sense for
overtones and a well-developed feel for breach and
dissonance. It seems to me that she has never written so
beautifully.
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Per Højholt, Jyllands Posten 9.10. 1992
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On
Territorial Song
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The poet Pia Tafdrup publishes her hitherto most extensive
volume of poems with a focus on Jerusalem, where a complex
new material from her own experience moves her to write a
great lyrical sequence of poems... With her brilliantly
maintained balance between minutely sensed observations and
penetrating reflections, with her constant change of form from
horizontal sweeping vistas to vertical poems of great
concentration, Tafdrup has with Territorialsang once and for all
distanced herself from the spindly poetry current in recent
years.
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Neal Ashley Conrad, Information d. 13. september 1994
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