There lives a young girl in me who will not die

by Tove Ditlevsen

Tove Ditlevsen's collection of poems is just as lovely as her prose. The aching, numb, exhilarating, and sometimes plain experience of living thrives in her words.

Sometimes poetry spells out feelings that are otherwise impossible to convey. While you might think nothing was left unsaid in Tove Ditlevsen's novels, these verses reveal somehow still more.

Impossible to describe or praise strongly enough — if you buy just one book of poems, let it be Tove Ditlevsen's There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die.

For those of us who dare not read Ditlevsen in her original Danish, this edition is translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith, with an introduction by Olga Ravn.

• Author: Tove Ditlevsen
• Size: 11 x 2 x 18 cm, 192 pages
• Language: English
• Softcover