Overview
An anthology showcasing the generation of Latvian poets who started writing and publishing after the country gained independence following the disintegration of the Soviet Union. All six have been shortlisted for or received the top Latvian literary prizes yet have retained their ability to surprise and refusal to pander to any convention.
In this second anthology introducing contemporary Baltic poetry, we meet the younger generation of Latvian poets who started writing and publishing after the country gained independence following the disintegration of the Soviet Union of which it had been part for half a century, a generation whose poetics is placed in a wider context by the editor and translator Ieva Lešinska and by the leading poet and translator of the older generation Juris Kronbergs, in their superbly informative introductions which offer many insights, both serious and witty, into the present and past of Latvian poetry.
- | Author: Anna Auzina, Ieva Lesinska, Marts Pujats, Ingmara Balode
- | Publisher: Arc Publications
- | Publication Date: Sep 28, 2011
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781906570392
- | ISBN-10: 1906570396