Butterfly Valley For hun har besluttet sig

For hun har besluttet sig for at ende sit liv på sine egne betingelser

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Det er først i det øjeblik vi forstår jorden og arternes sammenhæng

På hans befaling slagter menneskene dyrene og fælder træerne

Butterfly Valley For hun har besluttet sigWith parallel texts in Danish and English. 'Butterfly Valley' is a tour de force, exploring the major themes of life, love, death and art. The form is simple yet complex, a sequence of fifteen sonnets building to a final sonnet of extraordinary power composed of lines taken from the preceding fourteen sonnets in the sequence. Life, love, art, all are transient like the butterfly yet beautiful, even in their ephemerality. The translator Susanna Nied is