There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die by by Tove Ditlevsen Adnan al Sayegh John Donne and Simone Weil

John Donne and Simone Weil

As the novelist Kirsty Gunn writes in the foreword

a severe indictment of the mammoth pharmaceutical companies and of the merchants and pro-ponents of arms

addressing themes of loss

There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die by by Tove Ditlevsen Adnan al Sayegh John Donne and Simone WeilA new selection of poetry from the generation defining author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, translated for the first time into English. While Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as an extraordinary prose writer, in Denmark she has also long been celebrated as a poet. She published her first collection in her early twenties, and continued writing and publishing poetry until the end of her life. This new selection offers English readers a chance