In a single breathÜhe hingetõmbega by Kristiina Ehin and translated by Ilmar Lehtpere

This is poetry from Estonia.

In a single breathÜhe hingetõmbega by Kristiina Ehin translated by Ilmar Lehtpere is published by Cross-Cultural Communication. This is a Book originally written in Estonian. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780893049898E12.

In a Single Breath / Ühe hingetõmbega, by Kristiina Ehin and translated by Ilmar Lehtpere, announces its scale through breath rather than argument. The title suggests compression, intimacy, and the body’s smallest measure of continuance. Ehin’s poems often feel rooted in Estonian landscape and oral memory while remaining alert to contemporary life, desire, and estrangement. I would read this book for the way it might make a breath feel like a unit of lyric time: enough space for a whole weather, a whole loss, a whole spell to pass through. Lehtpere’s translation gives the English-language reader a version of Ehin’s music that does not overexplain its folkloric shimmer or its emotional directness.

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