tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post1415660466366464171..comments2024-02-03T10:27:22.640+00:00Comments on Nordic Voices in Translation: Elo Viiding: "Mothers' Day"David McDuffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-26978208598440205742009-05-08T12:04:00.000+01:002009-05-08T12:04:00.000+01:00P.S. I hadn't seen Pia Tafdrup's comment "I have w...P.S. I hadn't seen Pia Tafdrup's comment "I have written poems I actually did not understand..." when I wrote the above about Elo Viiding. But it is interesting that Tafdrup too brings up this aspect of poetry creation.Eric Dickenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473407452357469485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-15071156092030403192009-05-08T11:29:00.000+01:002009-05-08T11:29:00.000+01:00I would normally say "Whitmanesque". But I wanted ...I would normally say "Whitmanesque". But I wanted to pun on "manic". Because Whitman didn't half go on about everything he saw, and all the tongue-in-cheek false expectations about women that Viiding mocks form a similar outpouring, but sarcastic rather than ecstatic.<br /><br />Elo Viiding has a truly zany streak in her, something I have found nowhere else in Estonian poetry. One of her poems, Eric Dickenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473407452357469485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2041385492321829905.post-15760701328951083442009-05-08T06:21:00.000+01:002009-05-08T06:21:00.000+01:00>>Maybe this poem can be regarded as a kind ...>>Maybe this poem can be regarded as a kind of anti-Whitmanic rant<<<br /><br />How about "Whitmanesque"? :-)David McDuffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515361544462041148noreply@blogger.com