{"id":267596,"date":"2009-01-08T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/01\/08\/obituary-inger-christensen\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:27:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:27:25","slug":"obituary-inger-christensen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/01\/08\/obituary-inger-christensen\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Inger Christensen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reclusive writer Inger Christensen who &#8220;built experimental poems, essays and novels around systematized and mathematical structures&#8221; passed away at the age of 73. <\/p>\n<p>One of the books of 2009 that I&#8217;m most looking forward to is her novel <em>Azorno<\/em>, which New Directions is bringing out this summer. But after reading the quote above (from a skeletal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/entertainment\/AP\/story\/838015.html\">AP obit<\/a>) I think I&#8217;m also going to check out some of her poetry collections, especially <em>Alphabet<\/em> and <em>Butterfly Valley: A Requiem<\/em>, both of which are also available from ND.<\/p>\n<p>(The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/archive\/200901a.htm#jx7\">Literary Saloon<\/a> has links to a couple foreign obits of Christensen that look a bit more complete, including <a href=\"http:\/\/politiken.dk\/boger\/article623031.ece\">this one<\/a> from <em>Politiken<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/133.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reclusive writer Inger Christensen who &#8220;built experimental poems, essays and novels around systematized and mathematical structures&#8221; passed away at the age of 73. One of the books of 2009 that I&#8217;m most looking forward to is her novel Azorno, which New Directions is bringing out this summer. But after reading the quote above (from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,18246,56,1596,1646],"class_list":["post-267596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-inger-christensen","tag-new-directions","tag-obituary","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324716,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267596\/revisions\/324716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}