Showing posts with label Gustav Suits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gustav Suits. Show all posts

Sunday, April 28, 2013

The moon bileful aghast

Lunar corona. Source: Wikimedia

For reasons completely unelated, I found myself having to translate a poem by an Estonian author, Gustav Suits, a prominent modernist from the first half of the 20th century. The original text is somewhat flexible with language, and thus the translation is also … somewhat.