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Poetry Debuts: Patricija Gudeikaitė, Linas Daugėla, Austėja Jakas

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PATRICIJA GUDEIKAITĖ Patricija Gudeikaitė (b. 1998) is a literary event organizer and young poet. She graduated from the Kaunas Santaros Gymnasium and later earned a professional degree as a florist. Her poetry, bearing motifs of alienation, fringe states, and temporality, deals with the themes of mental health, sociopolitics, duality, and ambivalence. Gudeikaitė believes that all

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Laima Vincė

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That Unspoken Word Chapter One Beyond Three Hills July 10, 1941   “Matilda!” Kazys called out as he pushed open the heavy wooden door and stumbled inside the train station waiting room. He leaned against the wall to steady himself, struggling to catch his breath. “I ran the whole way here,” he uttered after a

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Tomas Vaiseta

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Ch. A novel Chapter 3 After the battle A feathered demon! I haven’t taken a step out of the theatre since the day I entered it and so you should understand that my recollection of things, settled at the bottom of my memory, after my passing glance at the building into which I had stepped

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Greta Ambrazaitė

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How I Gazed at My Grandmother’s Hands   Hands are inherited with the clay of garden beds under the nails, with swollen hillocks of joints, with invisible foundations sinking under the years, growing moldy in jars of cherry preserves Hands are inherited with a conductor’s muscle memory, inferred from the grace of palms, as if

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Whole Generations of Darkness

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Since publishing her first book of poetry, Greta Ambrazaitė has been known for her unique voice and as a representative of the contemporary Lithuanian literature scene. Her poetry is marked by its distinctive aesthetic of darkness and the author’s metaphorically dense language. Ambrazaitė’s poetic debut Fragile Things (Lithuanian Writers’ Union Publishing House, 2018) encompassed a wide thematical

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Poetry of Balance

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Western literary scholars usually divide poetry into two categories: poems dominated by nouns and poems dominated by verbs. In Lithuanian literature, the best-known representatives of the former are poets Tomas Venclova and Jonas Mekas. Both are émigré poets, having left their native country for the United States of America, yet both use nouns in their

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Nerijus Cibulskas

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New Moon what else can I learn from the botanical books of memory except how to forge a ring mount of first frost for the gleaming stone of a plum maybe I can also learn about white peony ceramics glazed by ants in the heat of the sun how fading light from the bowl of

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Antanas Šimkus: “Poetry Means Being Myself”

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Your poetic attitude separates you from your contemporaries (especially the younger writers). You maintain a close relationship to the literary tradition without seeking novel or (post)postmodern means of expression. Would you agree to be called a poet-lyricist? Does poetry mean encoding and transmitting personal thoughts, experiences, and observations? Poetry means being myself. The form that

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