Light, Grass, and Letter in April is the first book in English to appear since the great Danish poet s death in January 2009. Light (1962) and Grass (1963), her first published works, introduce her genius for the music of everyday speech, and her approaches to the themes she d pursue throughout her life: the primacy of nature, the enigmatic boundaries between the self and the other, and the role of language as a mediator between human experience and reality. Letter in April (1979), Christensen s most intimate book, examines love and loss, self and loss of...