Untitled - Azam Abidov - poet and translator
Untitled - Azam Abidov - poet and translator
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DORIS KAREVA<br />
Doris Kareva (Estonia) was born in 1958, graduated Tartu University<br />
in 1983 in Roman-Germanic philology cum laude, worked in the cultural<br />
weekly Sirp from 1978 – 1993 <strong>and</strong> 1997 – 2002. From 1992 to 2008 the<br />
Secretary-General of Estonian National Commission for UNESCO in<br />
Estonia, from 2009 the Chief Editor of family journal Meie Pere. Published<br />
12 collections of <strong>poet</strong>ry, one book of children`s literature <strong>and</strong> one book of<br />
essays, received two national cultural prizes <strong>and</strong> numerous literary prizes.<br />
Books of her <strong>poet</strong>ry have appeared in Russian, Latvian, Swedish, Thai,<br />
<strong>and</strong> also been translated into French, English, German, Dutch, Hindi,<br />
Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Slovenic, Polish, Welsh, Scottish, Ukrainian,<br />
Hungarian, Romanian, Irish, Greek <strong>and</strong> Hebrew. Her writing has been set<br />
to music, dance <strong>and</strong> theatre by various artists in Sweden, Belgium, United<br />
Kingdom, Netherl<strong>and</strong>s, Germany, Canada, Greece, Thail<strong>and</strong>, Estonia.<br />
Language of the Birds<br />
The sparks from your firesmoky eyes<br />
kept the room warm for hours,<br />
days, weeks, <strong>and</strong> months.<br />
I recognized that feeling: the glow.<br />
I recognized that feeling.<br />
Although<br />
it happened in another time, another film.<br />
When you photographed the paradise trees<br />
<strong>and</strong> I talked with the birds.<br />
Neither of us tasted anything there,<br />
did we?<br />
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