“To the pantheon of East European poets—Zagajewski, Szymborska, Herbert, Holub—we must now add Martinaitis. ‘K.B.,’ the poet’s common-man alter ego, has one foot in the miseries and fears of the post-Soviet era, one in the usual turmoils of the human self. In Laima Vince’s wonderful translation, this poetry is sharp, comic, salty, yet at the same time overflowing with compassion and tenderness.”—Alicia Suskin Ostriker
This book addresses post- Soviet East European reality as no other Lithuanian collection has to date, and evokes the fear an paranoia that hover around the edges of contemporary urban life.
About the Author
Marcelijus Martinaitis is a poet, essayist, and translator. He is a major poet and is well known in Lithuania as a public figure in the fight for the restoration of the independent state of Lithuania since 1988. Martinaitis has published ten collections of poetry, including his most popular collection, The Ballads of Kukuti and two collections of essays.
About the Translator
Laima Vince is a poet, writer, and translator. She teaches at the University of South Maine and directs the Stonecoast Summer Writer’s Conference. She has translated both poetry and prose from Lithuanian, including The Earth Remains: An Anthology of Contemporary Lithuanian Prose. She is currently a Fulbright lecturer in Lithuania.
K.B. the suspect
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Translator: Laima Vince
Paperback: 89 pages
Publisher: White Pine Press;
ISBN: 978-1893996281
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“To the pantheon of East European poets—Zagajewski, Szymborska, Herbert, Holub—we must now add Martinaitis. ‘K.B.,’ the poet’s common-man alter ego, has one foot in the miseries and fears of the post-Soviet era, one in the usual turmoils of the human self. In Laima Vince’s wonderful translation, this poetry is sharp, comic, salty, yet at the same time overflowing with compassion and tenderness.”—Alicia Suskin Ostriker
This book addresses post- Soviet East European reality as no other Lithuanian collection has to date, and evokes the fear an paranoia that hover around the edges of contemporary urban life.
About the Author
About the Translator
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