Vytautas Stankus is a contemporary Lithuanian poet who gives some of the most frequent readings and attracts some of the largest audiences at those readings. This poet and translator, who was also a school teacher for a while, works at Versus Aureus Publishers at present. His first poetry book Vaikščiojimas kita ledo puse (Walking on the Other
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Eugenijus Ališanka is one of the most translated contemporary Lithuanian poets. He belongs to the middle generation that is no longer affected by the past of Soviet occupation, but at the same time he does not tend to play the textual games of the more experimental younger generation of Lithuanian poets. Both the youngest and
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Mantas Balakauskas (b. 1989) is one of the most visible Lithuanian poets of the young generation. His creative bio would consist not only of interviews dished out left and right; it would also mention the Literatūrinės slinktys (Literary Shifts) festival of young artists, frequent poetry readings, and publications in the cultural press. Hardly had his
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*** words are just this hollow chimney smoke, these stuffed birds, perched in your shade, or silent hanging heads of boars, having lost their bodies and their power of speech, you know, I went hunting for ducks once, I watched how little dots fell to the ground, insignificant as all hell, and then we walked
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*** The field of victims shrinks to a gravel road in spring. Some four green bodies lie in the dust. The same ones we saw basking on the warming lake shore. Now – just crushed lead slough. The former act of jumping has become an inert, spread-eagled noun. With the husk of windy days open,
Young poets frequently feel the responsibility to rebel. They do not write like the older generation of poets, they break the form of the poem, and their creative work is an amplified mouthpiece of their position. Recently, however, a curious tendency has been observed in Lithuania: young poets are seemingly looking to return to tradition
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searching for the basilisk go straight ahead for a third of life to where a certain city stands you’ll smell it from afar incontinent with age with cemeteries under foundations pickles and potatoes in cellars from the last war where blind eyes sprout pale shoots and glass jars lie ruptured among dynasties of rats older
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This never happened, but it could have. I dedicate my book to the Conqueror The Alpha Star, or Polaris, and the Little Dipper Polaris is the brightest star in the constellation of Ursa Minor. To be more precise, it’s a system of three stars, comprising one super-giant star with a luminosity that varies cyclically, and
Rasa Aškinytė, a historian and philosopher, is the author of four novels. Žmogus, kuriam nieko nereikėjo (The Man Who Needed Nothing), voted the 2014 Book of the Year, was the most successful. Critics emphasize the conditionality and irony of her prose. The author calls the style of her novels psychedelic. The model of Aškinytė’s artistic world is
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Ten years. This is how long it has taken for the following myths to be debunked: that there are no comics in Lithuania, that nobody knows how to create them, that the market is flooded with poor-quality Japanese publications intended for children and teenagers, or by Spiderman and X-men, which are part of pop-culture and possess no artistic
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