The Poetry of Tove Ditlevsen

IN-STORE EVENT
Monday, March 17, 7:30 PM
Panel Discussion: The Poetry of Tove Ditlevsen
Featuring Merve Emre, Elisa Gonzalez, Sophie Haigney, and other panelists TBA
Tove Ditlevsen's There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die is the first work of poetry from the acclaimed Danish writer - and author of The Copenhagen Trilogy - to be translated into English. In Denmark during her lifetime, Ditlevsen was best-known for her poetry, and it was as a poet, first and foremost, that she saw herself. This selection spans her life and career, from her first collection, published in 1939 when she was just twenty-one, to her final posthumous work. Ditlevsen writes about heartbreak, angst, aging, sex, children, depression, addiction, love triangles, longing, work, and death – about the sublime and the mundane and the things other writers wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. The result is a landmark work from "a terrifying talent" (Parul Sehgal, The New York Times). To celebrate the book's publication, a panel of authors including poet Elisa Gonzalez (Grand Tour), critic Merve Emre (Personality Brokers), critic Sophie Haigney, and others discuss Ditlevsen's life and poetry, in a conversation moderated by Maris Kreizman.

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