The Thirteenth Month [Paperback]

Inge Pedersen (Author), Marilyn Nelson (Translator)

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Publication Date: December 1, 2005

Winner of the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize

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Danish author Inge Pedersen has published four collections of poems, two volumes of short stories, and two novels. The winner of many Danish and Scandinavian fellowships and prizes, she lives in Jutland. American poet and translator Marilyn Nelson has published eight collections of poems, including A Wreath for Emmett Till, and has won numerous awards and prizes. She has been Poet Laureate of Connecticut since 2000.

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• Paperback: 53 pages
• Publisher: Oberlin College Press (December 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932440363
• ISBN-13: 978-0932440365
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,976,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars translation of ethereal poems by contemporary Scandinavian woman poet, February 22, 2006

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This review is from: The Thirteenth Month (Paperback)

Light and sometimes dimness is like a participant and sometimes like a record or register for what happens, which can be any part of life--desire, remembrance, an interchange with someone or just a look at someone, a private moment. From the prose-poem "The First Spring's Shadow"--"A sun that pling, pling leaps out between the dark trees and hits the chrome of the bicycles...What isn't clear is the shadow..."; from "Right There in the Smoke"--"spoons, teacups, knives/drop/out of my hands/and fall into lead white/out of every/fixed meaning..."; and the opening of "The Move"--"Can everything burn, can everything give light..." Not every poem explicitly mentions light, subtly hints at its import, or almost imperceptibly uses it as a metaphor. But in every poem, most evidently in those where light figures, Pedersen sets a tone and finds a careful balance intimating that there are dimensions something like a thirteen month out of ordinary time giving sensible life a special fullness and poignancy.