Helsinki syndrome I am accompanied by misfortune: I am a little white mouse. My sisters and my brothers – All gray little mice. Ramutė Skučaitė “Balta pelytė” [Little white mouse] I still foster revenge plans directed at my classmates who called me paper-loving rodent, four-eyes chernobyl. With real scholastic happiness I say: we are all
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I Woke up Knowing I saw the future like a bride under a veil that one is not allowed to raise. Light flooded through the stained-glass of my eyes becoming my religion. From that moment, it lives in the church of my body under the arches of my ribs. It sleeps there, breathing quickly, lying
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The Great Synagogue was filled with light. It seemed like the April morning sun had suddenly moved to illuminate the grand vaults of the holy prayer house. “Do you like this?” Grandma Rokha asked, bending over and whispering into my ear. “Yes, I do,” I said truthfully. “Will you tell that to your papa and
Lithuanian writer Grigory Kanovich has dedicated his life, in his own words, ‘to what has been lost, to what has been destroyed – the small Jewish town.’ His last novel, Shtetl Love Song, out for the first time in English, ‘is, in a sense, a requiem to all such Jewish towns.’ Kanovich is one of Lithuania’s
Grigory Kanovich: saga about Lithuanian Jewry Read More »
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Lina Buividavičiūtė – Hospitals Read More »
You begin your new poetry collection Štai (There) with the text: “I’m only / Scared of speed / The other / You / Does not scare me.” You finish it with a similar one, only that it’s stated in two lines: “Only speed scares me / I’m not scared of the other you.” Can we say that
Agnė Žagrakalytė: “I don’t want it all to be—pop—over.” Read More »
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Vytautas Stankus – Nine lives Read More »
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Mantas Balakauskas … so crack open my head from which a new world will grow Read More »
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Nerijus Cibulskas – Yalta Read More »
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