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Pia Tafdrup. Dronningeporten. Copenhagen. Gyldendal. 1998. 176 pages. 195 kr. ISBN 87-00-32248-2.
Dronningeporten (The Queen's Gate) is the ninth volume of poetry among the twelve books written by Pia Tafdrup between 1981 and 1994. At first the title seems surprisingly at odds with the names of the book's nine sections, each made up of seven poems, the theme of every one of which has something to do with water in one form or another. The sections are called "The Drop," "The Lake," "The River," "The Well," "The Ocean," "Life's Fluids," "The Bath," "The Rain," and "The Rainbow.' In each the titles of its seven poems are listed in an unidentifiable pattern that conjures Up...