1001 winters by Kristiina Ehin and translated by Ilmar Lehtpere

This is poetry from Estonia.

1001 winters by Kristiina Ehin translated by Ilmar Lehtpere is published by Bitter Oleander Press. This is a Book originally written in Estonian. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780978633585E12.

1001 Winters, by Kristiina Ehin and translated by Ilmar Lehtpere, sounds like a fairy-tale calendar, a long weather system of memory, endurance, and story. Ehin’s Estonian poetry often carries a folkloric charge without becoming merely folkloric, as though myth and daily life were still close enough to share a coat. The title makes winter plural, excessive, almost legendary. I would read this book for its attention to feminine imagination, landscape, ancestry, and survival through cold. Lehtpere’s translation has been central to bringing Ehin’s work into English, and the poems seem to ask for a reader willing to treat the surreal not as escape, but as an older way of telling the truth.

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