Days of Grace by Doris Kareva, trans. by Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov Michael Mackmin ‘It’s impossible not to like

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Paper Aeroplane: Poems 1989-2014 is the author's own selection from across a quarter-century of work

Aaron Williamson

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Days of Grace by Doris Kareva, trans. by Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov Michael Mackmin ‘It’s impossible not to likeDoris Kareva is one of Estonias leading poets, admired especially for poems that balance precision and control with passion and bravado. Her achievement, according to Estonian Literature, is in writing poems which are both plentiful and fragile like a crystalbalancing on the line between the human soul and the universe, between sound and silence. Days of Gracespans over forty years of her poetic output, showing how the sustained depth and clarity of