Kissing a selfie The moment when your smartphone falls out of your hands and shatters on the tarmac, you don’t feel any anger or pity or irritation (which would be understandable since you’ve just lost about 440 euros in a single second); you only feel regret. ‘Oh, how sad that I don’t have a phone
Samogitian English is a branch of Sarmatian English (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) If, when you’re reading, you come across something you don’t understand, don’t worry—it’s normal not to understand everything. For example, I don’t completely understand authors who talk or write clearly. Because there’s really no point in talking or writing about something that is
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Illuminated The illuminated cross of an airplane. Short days, a limpid sky, and you can see it from the hill draped with maple leaves by the old city’s old graveyard; and you are also that child – agape, pressing your nose to the glass, gazing at the living map of unfamiliar places, miles and miles
In Lithuanian and other literature, budding poets often experience a strong need to define their place in the literary tradition, to figure out and reveal to the reader the characteristics of their use of language that render them unique and original. Dovydas Grajauskas’s, Virginija Kulvinskaitė’s and Tomas Petrulis’s debut works are the most prominent examples
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Rimantas Kmita is a poet, literary critic, and historian whose bearing combines restraint and provocation. He first entered the limelight when he wrote an alternative biography of the poet Justinas Marcinkevičius, who was called “the bard of the nation” during the Soviet years and after the re-establishment of the independence. Ištrūkimas iš fabriko: modernėjanti lietuvių poezija
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Chapter 8 Hanover. No, hold it, not like that. We get out. In Hanover. I get out and stand there. In Hanover. Ya hear – in Hanover! All together now: Ha-no-ver! Ha-no-ver! Dig it? I’m in Hanover! I’m weak at the knees. My mind reels. If only my classmates could see me now – in
hole Yes, I sometimes think that my grandfather was just fucking around with me. Before I was born, he planted a willow in the yard. When I was around five, I asked him why we bury the dead in the ground. G: Their coffins are like boats. They use them to sail to their loved
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Marius Povilas Elijas Martynenko is one of the most distinctive people and artists I have ever had the chance to know. Twenty-five years of his life encompass thirteen hypoglycemic comas, a number of different jobs, dropping out of university twice, a stint on the stage, using his hypnotic voice, and shining at slam poetry competitions
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Migration is an increasingly significant feature of contemporary life and as such, an important subject that shapes literary trends and informs literary imagination and aesthetics. Patterns of migratory flows are defined by a push and pull, causing some countries to experience large influxes of migrant populations, whilst others suffer hemorrhages in human resources. North America
Brought up in Klaipėda, with his first book Apie reiškinius (On Phenomena) published last year, poet Dovydas Grajauskas mainly concentrates on the origins of Christian reality, which he interprets distinctively in his poems. The junctions between several millennia and the present are exactly where the poetic effect of many Grajauskas’s works stems from. Reaching the beginning of
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