When any historical era ceases to thrive, artistic and literary forms tend to gain a certain pretentious expression, reminding us that everything comes to an end eventually. The most salient sign of such an ending in the seventeenth century was Rococo architecture, which indicated that the grand Baroque period was concluding. If such art tells
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scale: do-re-mi through a sky cut with a musical staff cold rain water flows covering our hands like chaff do quiet and at ease as if imagined as if it were us in the air instead like nothing happened re the cold mysteriously seeps and spreads making a music of bones for you and me
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Back to Sappho: Not War on Love, but Love as War “What would change if women ruled the world?” Recently, in Warsaw, in the context of a discussion with writers and journalists from the countries of Central Europe, I had to respond to that question. I remember how puzzled I was with the word “ruled.”
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In recent years, Greta Ambrazaitė’s work has been growing stronger, more varied, and more surprising. Increasingly, poets come to prominence not through the pages of cultural periodicals (for a long time, they were the main scene for debuts), but through social media or poetry slams. They reveal that poetry is a flexible way to communicate
blood mouse look how the trees rise high, a small blood mouse runs by, i close my eyes before beginning to speak, wanting so much to be closer how grand, that which unites us, how petty, that which separates, don’t jail me in empty speech, beyond it lies the metallic red of lips look, the
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Mindaugas Valiukas – Dausprungas’s Pilgrimage Discovery Nr. 91 Read More »
••• The alarm says it’s 6:45am. I open my eyes and can’t get out of bed for a long time. I roll over and try to get back to sleep in an attempt to convince myself that nothing bad will come out of a few more hours. 9am. The neighbours’ kid starts crying. Even though
Prosaist Gabija Grušaitė first novel, entitled Neišsipildymas (‘Unfulfillment’), came out in 2010. As a debut novel, it aimed high—the aspiration was to depict her generation (people in their twenties or slightly older at that time) living in the global and digital world. “This book will be liked by anyone who buys ecological food, spends at least three
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