Dear Greenland
Ida Frisch
Original title: Kjære Grønland
Publisher: Tiden, 2020
Genre: Poetry
Pages: 64 pages
The Greenland ice sheet is melting. We’ve seen the pictures, read the articles, and heard the scientists speak about the consequences. We all know why it is happening, but in Ida Frisch’s book Dear Greenland, there is no talk of two-degree targets or stern wagging fingers. Instead, the speaker tries to understand the white island. Where is it headed? What is it transforming into? Is there a kind of relief in becoming someone else? Can the relationship between sea and ice be compared to love?
Dear Greenland is a poem, a lament, a letter, a longed-for conversation between a human being and the world’s largest island. The book is also an open attempt to rethink our relationship with nature – at a moment when it is perhaps most urgently needed.
