
A Landscape Blossoms Within Me
Eeva Kilpi(Author)
Arc Publications (Publisher)
Published on 29. September 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-908376-85-5 (ISBN)
Description
These poems evade labelling. Under a simple surface, Kilpi's poems display a multi-voiced modernism, ranging from bawdy humour, sexual comedy, daily irritations, and the absurdities of old age, as well as delicate expressions of love and loss.
The carnival of voices extends from poem to poem, and reading them becomes more like listening to jazz, where what matters is the way the instrumentalist takes up and varies the riffs to hand.
In her own words she is 'sometimes a verb, sometimes a noun' and sometimes goes off to 'scare the birds in the fields'. Kilpi is indeed a shape-shifter, and reading her poems thus becomes a voyage into different ways of being.
The carnival of voices extends from poem to poem, and reading them becomes more like listening to jazz, where what matters is the way the instrumentalist takes up and varies the riffs to hand.
In her own words she is 'sometimes a verb, sometimes a noun' and sometimes goes off to 'scare the birds in the fields'. Kilpi is indeed a shape-shifter, and reading her poems thus becomes a voyage into different ways of being.
Reviews / Votes
"Donald Adamson's succinct, immensely enjoyable translations of Eeva Kilpi's poems capture a voice which is direct, ironic, lyrical and robust. These poems light up the darkest corners of experience with apparently casual assurance, and express the curious, addictive pains and wonders of the everyday with wit and an undertow of sorrow." Helen Dunmore "... Urgent, honest, compulsive, funny - poems I'd send to friends who say they don't like poetry." Jen HadfieldMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Lancs
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
176 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908376-85-5 (9781908376855)
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Persons
Eeva Kilpi is one of Finland's best-loved writers, and a Nobel Prize nominee. Her work has been published in sixteen languages, but this is her first full-length poetry collection in English.