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Signe Gjessing's highly original reconfiguration of Wittgenstein's Tractatus unfolds at once logically and lyrically on the trembling cusp where philosophy and poetry intersect. Her witty, haunting propositions shimmer between the profound and the puzzling, and beautifully enact Wallace Stevens's assertion that 'Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation' - Mark Ford; Fuelled both by logic and intuition, luxuriance and clarity, ecstasy and precision, this long poem unfurls, fractal-like, to amass moments of confounding, generative insight and beauty - Ralf Webb; Signe Gjessing is a wild voice in new Danish poetry, always closely connected to the symbolic tradition and cosmos - Naja Marie Aidt

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SIGNE GJESSING (b. 1992) is a Danish poet. She graduated from the Danish Academy of Creative Writing, Forfatterskolen, in 2014. She has published several collections of poetry and a novella, and is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the prestigious Bodil & Jorgen Munch Christensen Prize for emerging writers. Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus is her first work to appear in English. DENISE NEWMAN is a poet and translator based in San Francisco. She is the author of five poetry collections and the translator of Azorno and The Painted Room by Inger Christensen, and by Naja Marie Aidt, Baboon, winner of the PEN Translation Award, and When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back: Carl's Book, a semi-finalist for the National Book Award.

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