In twenty-first century Lithuanian poetry, a slow centripetal shift is taking place: in the last five years books of poetry only attempt to divulge and discover unique forms of expression, working with the structure of the text and the book, and even though shyly, try and test linguistic potential (in this context we can recall
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The Seventh Sketch In the 1990s, an insurmountable crisis hit the Soviet Union. Nothing helped, not charm nor decrees from the Communist Party, or the glasnost and perestroika declared by the secretary general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. The shelves in shops were empty, and Soviet leaders started expressing the
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A couple of decades after regaining independence, Lithuania is increasingly attracting the attention of foreign authors writing in English and other languages. There is growing interest in the history of the Lithuanian resistance movement against the occupying powers and the country’s current reality. One of the first writers to turn his attention to life in
1. It’s been a year since I came back to where I belong, and to my surprise I find myself longing for a country I don’t belong to. I just spent ten years in it. My friends ask me why am I missing it—where does this longing come from? This country didn’t accept you, and
There aren’t many Lithuanian authors writing on LGBT(QI) themes. One of the first openly homoerotic scenes I read in Lithuanian prose was a fragment in Jurga Ivanauskaitė’s scandalous novel Ragana ir lietus (The Witch and the Rain, 1993), in which the main protagonist, disappointed in love and men, allows herself to be seduced by a lesbian who
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Orange Peels autumn refracts like gold through dusty curtains and a mahogany closet brims with summer skirts – lost in the cosmetics drawer between toy cars and your mother’s dreams you search and search you grey-eyed boy clutching orange peels in a childish fist you wait for the weekend when through woven ivy fingers a
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Dainius Dirgėla – Role | Play: 25 Read More »
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Giedrė Kazlauskaitė – Singer Serenade Read More »
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