Maarja Kangro was born in Tallinn, on December 20, 1973, where she currently lives. She has published five collections of poetry, a children's book and three collection of short stories. In 2011, a collection of her poems, La farfalla dell’irreversibilità (The Butterfly of No Return) was published in Italian. Apart from Italian, her poems and short stories have been translated into English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Russian, Slovene, Swedish, and Udmurt.
In a small bookstore
under the roof of a shopping mall,
looking for a gift,
I resorted to the silly habit
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So, as a child, you say?
You jumped,
and the pile of Eternit cracked?
Blue sneakers, white chrysotile.
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‘again' is a big word.
slowly and quickly
again
again men rejoice on the radio
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In the hot garden of the Peggy
Guggenheim Museum in Venice
stands a sculpture by Anish Kapoor,
a dark grey granite block.
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A small plane rises
to the optimal altitude,
the stewardess brings coffee.
A faint crack is heard
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