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Shortening the Candle's Wick by Andres Ehin and Ly Seppel, trans. by Ilmar Lehtpere Chatto & Windus Austin ChronicleBy turns surreal, political, folkloric and rootedly domestic, Shortening the Candles Wick is a window into the imaginative world of a poetic relationship. For over forty years, husband and wife Andres Ehin and Ly Seppel lived together in Estonia writing poetry. Ehins style is that of the surrealist a connector of the unconnectable whilst Seppel is a poet of the fleeting moment, the glance of language across it. Translator Ilmar Lehtpere has compiled a
