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Book SynopsisDoris Kareva is one of Estonia's leading poets, and 'Shape of Time' is her eleventh book of poetry and her first full collection to be published in the UK. The poet suggests that it is composed like a piece of music in three 'movements'. The first, 'After the World', presents, as its central theme, a post-apocalyptic picture of despair; the second, 'Deo et Die', develops - by drawing on the beauty of nature and language - a measured message of hope; and the third, 'Shape of Time', through a process of re-evaluation and reconstruction, consolidates a new order. A short fourth part, 'Zero Point Reflection' by way of a finale, reflects on what has gone before from a slightly different perspective which serves to underline the ambiguities and uncertainties of the poet's journey through time. Doris Kareva observes the anguish of existence and experience in a style that is pared-back, bone-clean, needle-sharp. Her work has indeed the notation of the music of inwardness, of its despairs and its mediating flashes of illumination. And thus her poetry has its being in a time and place where past, present and future exist simultaneously.A " Penelope Shuttle, from her Introduction to 'Shape of Time'
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
