There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems by Ditlevsen, Tove
There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems by Ditlevsen, Tove

There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

By the acclaimed author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, a startling and darkly funny volume of selected poetry,...
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Author: Tove Ditlevsen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems by Ditlevsen, Tove

There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

$71.99 $40.00
There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems by Ditlevsen, Tove

There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

$71.99 $40.00
Author: Tove Ditlevsen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

By the acclaimed author of The Copenhagen Trilogy, a startling and darkly funny volume of selected poetry, the first to be translated into English.

From one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writers, the author of the acclaimed Copenhagen Trilogy, comes There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, 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 daily disappointment with vivid, unsparing detail.

Speaking across generations to both the passions of youth and the agonies of adulthood, There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die reveals everyday life stripped of its excesses, exposing its bones and bare qualities: 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.

Author: Tove Ditlevsen
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/07/2026
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780374618018

About the Author

Tove Ditlevsen (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 The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, and Dependency.

Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell are translators living in Copenhagen. Together they have translated fiction and poetry by Danish writers such as Olga Ravn, Tove Ditlevsen, and Solvej Balle.
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