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From the collection “Valgus kivi sees” (“The Light Within the Stone”, 2019)
Translated by Adam Cullen
THE BEGINNING
Or an entirely di...
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Viivi Luik is undoubtedly one of the most important and internationally renowned authors of Estonian literature. She first enchanted Estonia...
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In spring 2020, 75 years after the end of World War II Viivi Luik was invited to present her books in Bremen in Germany (12.-14.05) and disc...
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Translated by Adam Cullen
In any corner of the Estonian map in which you may recline,
the season will not inquire.
The ai...
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Translated by Adam Cullen
I shoved myself free, believing I’d stand on my own,
and indeed, I started to walk
and I grew
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Translated by Adam Cullen
The woods. It’s very still here today.
No saws rumble today, no harvester whines,
there’s no on...
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weathervane
Translated by Jayde Will
becoming ever lighter
I ascend through the smoke
hole, exhale and turn on my back...
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same as usual.
for a starter.
you’re paying, turning and waving.
and begin to smile. an announcement
...
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Chronophyte
True realization,
understanding, always comes
by accident, by accident like
“without undergoing”,
“without brain racking”, ...
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Translated by Hildi Hawkins
The Beauty of History, Norvik Press, 2007
But this is nothing yet compared to the future and to Bu...
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An excerpt translated by Adam Cullen
EXCERPTS
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distance distance distance distance distance
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Translated by Adam Cullen
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I've told you I'd like to eat you. I’m not sure how metaphoric this is because
from a slight wo...
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An excerpt translated by Adam Cullen
At the age of five, I was given my very first lesson in the fact that wherever there is love...
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Translated by Adam Cullen
Elfi is in the mood to sing. She feels strangely good here, in this room, sewing straightjackets with...
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Translated by Adam Cullen
I’m at home awaiting a god
awaiting at an open window
my own little god
who should be getting home ...
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Translated by Adam Cullen
It’s hard to top chatting away until a late hour, listening to other people’s conversations, and then sliding i...
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Translated by Miriam Mcilfatrick-Ksenofontov
my writing to you is far from rash.
if you were younger, cut more of a dash,
there...
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„So what´syour favourite drink?“
I ask her-
An elfish Estonian lightning-streak
With a lynx´s spirit,
Scarcely six or seven, yet
Weathe...
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Translated by Adam Cullen
You know how it goes. You’ve been in a long, destructive relationship with a guy who, with his two u...
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Translated by Adam Cullen
your naked body is beautiful in february sunshine we drink moonshine
and go outside to smoke bolted to ...
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Translated by Adam Cullen
Stories of a Hundred Nations
A fairy tale about waiting.
A fairy tale about warm light.
A fairy...