Name: Jaan Kaplinski: Selected Poems, Paperback/Jaan Kaplinski
Brand: Bloodaxe Books
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Estonia's Jaan Kaplinski is one of Europe's major poets, and one of his country's best-known writers and cultural figures. He was a member of the new post-Revolution Estonian parliament in 1992-95 and his essays on cultural transition and the challenges of globalisation are published across the Baltic region. This selection includes work previously unpublished in English as well as poems drawn from all four of his previous UK/US collections: 'The Same Sea in Us All', 'The Wandering Border', 'Through the Forest' and 'Evening Brings Everything Back'. About the Author Jaan Kaplinski is one of Estonia's best-known writers and cultural figures. He was born in Tartu in 1941, shortly after the Soviet occupation of Estonia. His mother was Estonian, and his Polish father died in a labour camp in northern Russia when Jaan was still a child. 'My childhood, ' he has said, 'passed in Tartu, a war-devastated university town. It was a time of repression, fear, hypocrisy and poverty.' Jaan Kaplinski studied Romance Language and Linguistics at Tartu University and has worked as a researcher in linguistics, as a sociologist, ecologist and translator. He has lectured on the History of Western Civilisation at Tartu University and has been a student of Mahayana Buddhism and philosophies of the Far East. He has published several books of poetry and essays in Estonian, Finnish and English, and his work has been translated into Norwegian, Swedish, Latvian, Russian and Czech. After publishing transla