This spring, Slinktys Publishers released the poetry collection Procesija (Procession), the poet, essayist, and literary critic Gintaras Bleizgys’s fourteenth book. Although Bleizgys has tried out a number of literary genres and is a prolific and versatile author, his collection Procesija, published after a pause of several years, marks a new stage in his work. In
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Today’s young generation of Lithuanian poets primarily writes confessional poems dealing with the effects of trauma. The works are dominated by marginal situations, psychological conditions, fears, and the inner barriers hindering the life of the modern person. The real – partly psychoanalytical – aim of such works is to document that which the author themselves
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Spring Light This day will be long – Spring, the devil’s clever helper Always brings strong spirits, Good recordings and photos Of blooming bird-cherry trees. Even the kitchen of it’s abysses Has a pleasant scent, A cup of strong, black coffee Before morning dawns. The day will be long and arduous, And the evening
When it comes to Ramunė Brundzaitė’s second book of poetry, fans and critics were forced to wait for some time. Her first collection of poetry, Butterfly, My Friend, was greeted with success, winning the Lithuanian Writers’ Union annual “First Book” prize and receiving two prestigious Lithuanian poetry awards. After nine years, I hold in my hands
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the key of memory “Daddy, I have had to kill you.” – Sylvia Plath “Mio padre è stato per me ‘l’assassino.’” – Umberto Saba like a key that you would always lose (you lose it because you want to lose it, Freud would say) (the thing itself wants to be lost, Jung would say) you
One of Eglė Frank’s characters asks: “It‘s always interesting, when everything is just starting out, isn’t it?“ Well, I thought the same about her debut book, The Dead Also Dance. Here, short pieces transmit an encrypted message that something will “finally happen”: when the doors open, something will happen – perhaps a prophetic dream will finally
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The Moose on the Road Ilma first thought it was brains: a steaming bloody mass on the asphalt, the road gleaming as if coated in oil. The temperature had dropped below freezing and the road surface was growing a dangerously slick slime. It all happened in a matter of seconds. One moment she realized it
*** When I saw the pink ceiling of my studio for the first time, I didn’t like it. But I didn’t say anything. I didn’t want to ruin the mood of the Assistant Director. At that moment, I thought it would be better if the color had been… even, well, turquoise. Or blue. I have
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During the long oppressive decades of the Soviet occupation, the editors of the underground journal, The Chronicle of the Catholic Church of Lithuania, pledged to publish testimonies of human rights abuses until freedom of speech was restored in Lithuania. Despite arrests, incarceration, deportation to Siberia, and the murders of its editorial staff, The Chronicle, (Kronika in Lithuanian, as
