Snow Drifts, I Sing: Selected Poems

Juhan Liiv, Jüri Talvet (Translator) and H.L. Hix (Translator)

Guernica Editions, Fall 2013

108 pages

Trade Paperback

ISBN13: 9781550718256

ISBN10: 1550718258

English

Translated from the Estonian

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Juhan Liiv (1864-1913) has the same significance for Estonian culture that Federico García Lorca and T.S. Eliot have for modern culture created, respectively, in Spanish and English. Liiv's existential-patriotic and intimate-holistic lyrics have had an impact across Estonian society. Rebellion against all models and fashions existing in poetry unites Liiv with Walt Whitman: noble and proud, always in search of original expression, ever aspiring to resemble God in the inimitability of creation.

It would be madness / to silence one's mother tongue. / Even the hen explicates things / to her brood.

Jüri Talvet and H. L. Hix have brought twenty-first-century readers a remarkable gift with their selection and bilingual presentation of Estonian poet Juhan Liiv’s work. As well known in Estonia as Walt Whitman is known in the United States, Liiv (1864–1913) deserves to be widely read and to take his rightful place among the world’s great poets.

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