IV do you hear outside the window the black ravens cawing it’sthe limousine of my delight an unusual joy to listen to when the silence rustles and they quietly caw to my own inner ravens their conversation is like a bridge with forests and marshes like a black band tying me to the blooming plants […]
Once when I was writing about Dainius Gintalas’s poems, I called them efficacy poetry: poetry that talks about a condition in order to convey it effectively. Admittedly, we could debate whether this is not the goal of many, if not all, poets. However, in the work of Gintalas, who writes acerbic texts, the aim to
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I I hadn’t been back to Alaska for thirty years, not since 1991, when my Uncle Ray and I hiked up Mt. Marathon in his hometown of Seward. The only people I knew who had been to Alaska had driven there. They drove old cars or vans on the Alcan highway through the remote mountain
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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
