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Book Synopsis'Shape of Time' is Doris Kareva's eleventh collection and, as with all her books, its publication was hailed as a major literary event in Estonia. In style, it is more restrained than her earlier collections but its themes are the same - love and its great enemies, death and time - and the poems still retain the romantic bravado and recklessness that make her work so compelling. Doris Kareva is arguably Estonia's leading female poet. Born in Tallinn in 1958, she studied English Language and Literature at Tartu University and from 1978-1993, and from 1997-2002, she worked for the cultural weekly Sirp. From 1992-2008 she was the Secretary-General of the Estonian National Commission for UNESCO in Estonia, and from 2009 Chief Editor of the family journal Meie Pere. Since 1978 she has published 14 collections of poetry, which have been translated into over 20 languages, and one collection of essays.
Table of ContentsTranslator's Preface Introduction I AFTER THE WORLD The dog with a third eye - A" / The clock moves - A" / The scalpel - A" / Man - A" / Whatever you need - A" / The days melt - A" / Within three seconds - A" / When the fear - A" / Daughter of chaos - A" / Yes we did sleep - A" / He hated himself - A" / Faithful? - A" / Grammar of pain - A" / My metaphysics - A" / I live in spring - A" / The heart writes - A" / Moving through - A" / All lines - A" / The meaning - A" / No way will it heal - A" / When I threw you out - A" / I don't carry your picture - A" / Everything I shouldn't think - A" / I saw you - A" / I am rehearsing - A" / Middle-aged - A" / As a child I wondered - A" / There are three in the cave - A" II DEO ET DIE In the end, hope - A" / All the fuses were blown - A" / Emptiness - A" / From what material - A" / The suit of light - A" / Countless and wonderful - A" / Poetry is the dance - A" / He who lives in light - A" / When a wave splashes - A" / Whoever has learned - A" / Exhaustion's divine enervation! - A" / You aren't better than anyone - A" / The question isn't - A" / Idleness is often empowering - A" / Man is still asleep - A" / Delicious, singular - A" Vota mind vahel kui voileiba - A" / Have me like a sandwich - A" / Your most delicate detail - A" / In the depths of August's dark nights - A" / Like a cornucopia - A" / All bodies - A" / We cap the night - A" / Day, day - A" / Tomorrow is everyone's light - A" III AJA KUJU / SHAPE OF TIME The falling stars - A" / A seaside house - A" / Lift up, then, sun - A" / One night - A" / Blazing, unmoving sun - A" / Desert dogs run - A" / Golden black feathery tail - A" / That which is - A" / I listen for hours - A" / I walked along the sea-shore - A" / Life's living expression - A" / In what language - A" / To live - A" / You inhale - A" / The reader - A" / The sparks - A" / Beneath the full moon - A" / The Swordfish - A" / The best part of day - A" / All of a sudden - A" / The nights write - A" / The three-sided glass house - A" / All those delicate - A" / Bitter and scarce - A" / Everything spins - A" / Our destiny - A" / Like a bald man - A" / Life teaches one thing - A" / Whoever has even once - A" / Language flows - A" / Language is truly - A" / With clocklike precision - A" / I don't know - A" / A butterfly - A" / Yesterday my mind - A" / The world diverges - A" / It seems - A" / The morning unfurls - A" / Blindingly - A" IV NULLPUNKTI PEEGELDUS / ZERO POINT REFLECTION Zero Point Reflection / Shape of Time / Deo et Die Biographical Notes
