{"id":611,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/isotamm\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:09:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:09:34","slug":"isotamm","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/i\/isotamm\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny B. Isotamm"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPoems <\/span><\/strong><\/a>\"Jaan<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAbout\u00a0Johnny B. Isotamm<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tJaan Isotamm (pseudonym Johnny B. Isotamm, 19. X 1939 \u2013 2. VI 2014) was a poet, collector and researcher of life stories.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHe was born in Tartu, but lived in many places in Estonia in his childhood. In 1956 he was imprisoned for belonging to an underground youth organisation and sent to a labour camp in the Mordovian ASSR in Russia for seven years. After his release in 1963 Isotamm settled in Tartu; he was a dissident and lived a bohemian life in Tartu, working at various casual jobs in Tartu and south Estonia; from 1969 to 1988 he was a night-watchman. From 1988 to 2003 he worked in the editorial office of the journal Akadeemia<\/em>. He was a well-known collector and researcher of life stories; in 2010-2011 he was an expert for the series of books published by the newspaper Eesti P\u00e4evaleht<\/em> called Eesti m\u00e4lu<\/em> (\u2018Estonia\u2019s Memory\u2019) which collected together the best of Estonian memoirs. \u00a0<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIsotamm began writing poetry in the mid-sixties in samizdat journals. In 1968 his verses appeared in the journal Noorte H\u00e4\u00e4l<\/em>. In 1971 he published the cycle Mees t\u00e4navalt<\/em> (\u2018The Man from the Street\u2019) in the collection N\u00e4rvitr\u00fckk<\/em> (\u2018Nerve Print\u2019), the work of four young men (Joel Sang, J\u00fcri \u00dcdi, Toomas Liiv and Johnny B. Isotamm).<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIsotamm\u2019s poetic self is in opposition to a world which oppresses individuality and produces anxiety. There are no illusions for this poetic self; his attitude to his surroundings is ironical. Isotamm mainly uses prose-like free verse and coarse language. Sometimes he uses verbal role-play and role-poems.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tA. Mv. (Translated by C. M.)<\/span><\/span><\/em>\n<\/p>\n

Books in Estonian<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPoems<\/em><\/strong>
Tekstiraamat<\/strong>. Luuletusi 1967-1970. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1972, 72 lk.
Mina \u2013 Johnny B<\/strong>. Tekste aastaist 1967-1974. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 1999, 192 lk.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNon-fiction<\/em><\/strong>
Jaan Isotamm, N\u00e4gija pimedate maal. Artikleid, intervjuusid, s\u00f5nav\u00f5tte<\/strong>. Koostanud Katrin Raid ja Mart Orav. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2015, 776 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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