ELM 1999/2

Short overviews of books by Estonian authors

By Rutt Hinrikus and Janiks Kronberg
ELM 2/1999
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Madis Kõiv:  Near Kähri Church at Pekri (Kähri kerko man Pekril)"Studia Memoria" II. Võru: Võru Instituut, 1999. 232 ppEstonian literat...

Poetry by Uku Masing


ELM 2/1999
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ONLY THE MISTS ARE REAL The wind is a shuttle made of elm-wood,I am but an airy web of duskWhich God’s tapering fingers of a unicorn’s b...

Poetry by Guntars Godiņš


ELM 2/1999
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* The sugar dissolved in the coffeeand spring began,scented and sweet.Your hands danced upon the tableThe long forgotten steps of me...

Madis Kõiv's visionary theatre

By Luule Epner
ELM 2/1999
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Madis Kõiv (born in 1929) is a remarkably versatile man: a nuclear physicist by profession, he chairs the seminar of analytical philosophy ...

Estonian prose 1998

By Mihkel Nummert
ELM 2/1999
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Imaginary TriangleA.A. So…an overview of Estonian prose for ‘Estonian Literature Magazine’. It probably goes without saying that the no...

Estonian poetry 1998. Fashions and figures

By Hasso Krull
ELM 2/1999
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During the seventies and the eighties the annual review of poetry in the literary magazine Looming was an important and influential institu...

A lesson of harmony

By Doris Kareva
ELM 2/1999
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As a child of four or five, I used to long for paints and paper, so that I could draw to my heart’s content. My father gave me a piece ...

The goat and the storks

By Jean-Luc Moreau
1/1999
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On reaching the age of reason I learned two things. Firstly, that there was no such thing as Father Christmas; and secondly, that there was...