SIGNS i turn i try to descry the signs of survival st. anne’s church the closing wounds of the mortal excavations in the city of silence and laughter piercing laughter SOUR LITTLE APPLES when i’m silent i find my voice yelling crawling on trunks of trees prowling in the murky shade sour little […]
Aiški linija (A Bold Line) is the third poetry book by Nijolė Daujotytė. Her first poetry collection Vienmečiai augalai, published in 2003, earned her the Zigmas Gėlės literary prize, which is awarded to the best poetry debut of the year. In her third book, Daujotytė maintains and further develops her minimalist and subtle tone. The book’s title
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I was nervous about meeting my old school friend, Greta. I had not seen her since 1988, when I’d spent a few days with her at the Lithuanian Gymnasium in Germany before flying to Moscow, and then to Vilnius. In the late eighties and early nineties, diaspora Lithuanians had the chance to meet their Lithuanian
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ECHO (an excerpt) …That August I would go out into the city with no expectations at all. I roamed around it as though I were saying farewell for all time. In the evenings you no longer had to hunt for a space on the lower banks of the Seine; after
It was October of 2018, the tenth issue of the literary journal, “Metai,” and it contained Valdas Papievis’s “Ėko.” It wasn’t a short story, as one might conjecture from the text’s structure, density and richness, but the subtitle called it a fragment of a novel, bestowing hope that in time it would become a novel. It
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I first met Erika Drungytė, a poet, translator, and the editor-in-chief of the monthly cultural publication Nemunas, when she acted as one of the jurists at a literary contest. I was one of the contestants. I still remember the feedback she gave us about our writing and especially the importance of what she described as the
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Mood (I) Happy young men with shaved heads Waving orange marigold garlands Dance – almost in flight – and sing Flowers fragranced by fall’s hare krishna Wherever you go, the flowers seem to follow From parks and plazas, alleys and squares Annoying and celebratory, sharp and sweet Happy in a way not ours, tenderly sad as
According to the publisher’s blurb, Jūros nėra (There Is No Sea), the fifth book of poetry by the poet and philosopher Aušra Kaziliūnaitė, is conceptual and performative. In it, the author develops the idea actualised in her earlier collection, Esu aptrupėjusios sienos (I Am Crumbled Walls): the interaction between images and texts expands the semantic
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