{"product_id":"there-lives-a-young-girl-in-me-who-will-not-die-selected-poems-9780374613464","title":"There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Copenhagen Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, a startling and darkly funny volume of selected poetry, the first to be translated into English. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt was a meaningless day\u003cbr\u003elike what you call\u003cbr\u003elove \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was a Thursday\u003cbr\u003eIn parentheses. The brackets around it\u003cbr\u003eHave already faded\u003cbr\u003eLife tastes of ash\u003cbr\u003eAnd is bearable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writers, the author of the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eCopenhagen Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, comes\u003ci\u003e There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die\u003c\/i\u003e, a major volume of selected poetry written throughout Tove Ditlevsen's life. Infused with the same wry nihilism, quiet intensity, dark humor, and crystalline genius that readers savor in her prose, these are heartbreak poems, childhood poems, self-portraits, death poems, wounded poems, confessional poems, and love poems--poems that stare into the surfaces that seduce and deceive us. They describe childhood, longing, loss, and memory, obsessively tracing their imprints and intrusions upon everyday life. With morbid curiosity, Ditlevsen's poems turn toward the uncanny and the abject, approaching gingerly. They stitch the gray scale of daily disappointment with vivid, unsparing detail, a degree of precision that renders loneliness psychedelic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpeaking across generations to both the passions of youth and the agonies of adulthood, \u003ci\u003eThere Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die\u003c\/i\u003e reveals everyday life stripped of its excesses, exposing its bones and bare qualities: the normal and the strange, the meaningful and the meaningless. These startling, resonant poems are both canonical and contemporary, and demand to be shared with friends, loved ones, nemeses, and strangers alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tove Ditlevsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.49h x 5.65w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374613464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/17\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTove Ditlevsen\u003c\/b\u003e (1917-1976) was born in a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties and was followed by many more books, including the three volumes of \u003ci\u003eThe Copenhagen Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eChildhood\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYouth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDependency\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Tove Ditlevsen \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47281792221341,"sku":"9780374613464","price":47.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_17aaad5b-89a0-4545-b1f3-2a3151340b41.jpg?v=1759936229","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/there-lives-a-young-girl-in-me-who-will-not-die-selected-poems-9780374613464","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}