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Book SynopsisIn 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 Lesinska 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.
Table of ContentsANNA AUZIN:'Breakfast in the Clouds' / 35, 'to meet you - ' / 35, 'I would like - ' / 37, 'there are these streets - ' / 37, 'And something else - ' / 391, 'Choice took wing - ' / 39, 'For several years - ' / 41, 'When home late - ' / 41, 'what do you do - '/ 41, 'I now have a doggie - ' / 43, 'My man - ' / 43, 'Our Mothers' / 47, 'In the middle of the night - ' / 47, I do not want to - / 49,'autumn comes - ' 51, 'Yet Something Seems Wrong' /51 'You looked happy - ' / 53, 'I can draw - ' / 55, 'Long Before' / 55, 'How can I be your angel - ' / 57, INGMARA BALODE:'Closed' / 63, 'Open' / 63, 'i was drawn - '/ 65, 'Good evening, Mr. Gauguin' / 65, 'An Unknown Paradise' / 67, 'to wake up in autumn - '/ 69, 'After the Deluge' / 69, 'Last Conversations' / 71, 'axi Radio' / 73, 'to the airport' / 73, 'I think I fell in love - '/ 75, 'is it really not - ' / 75, 'in all sketches of today - '/77, 'How nice - '/ 77, 'Street' / 79, 'I found myself - ' / 79, 'Something Different' / 81, AGNESE KRIVADE: 'Come, they told me' / 89, 'Two a.m.' / 89, 'I could sing something - ' /89, 'a book in which to dive - '/ 91, 'why does nobody - '/ 93, 'a scream - '/ 93, 'what can a person do - ' / 95, 'living in the fridge' / 97, 'I feel it strongly - ' / 97, 'home' / 97, 'looking for easy - ' / 99, 'autumn' / 991, 'summer' / 101, 'she is in a black lacy bra - ' /101, MARTS PUJATS: 'I return to the room - '/ 107, 'the churches had wells - ' / 109, 'down to my last crumb - ' / 109, 'Through Traumerei - ' / 111, 'to enter you through - '/ 113, 'Entering her apartment - ' / 113, 'any silence is - ' / 113, 'Cristelle and Eugene walked - ' / 115, 'Cristelle and Eugene were lying down - ' / 115, 'A theatre director - ' / 117, 'We were resting - ' / 117, 'Flour and Salt' / 119, 'It is not difficult - ' / 119, 'Maris Salejs' A / 125, 'so that's what - ' / 125, 'transparency - '/ 127, ' - do you go to Bethlehem?' / 127, 'bleeding - '/ 129, 'for you my love - ' / 129, 'well please - ' / 129, 'I know - ' / 131, 'I grieve - '/131, 'the universe - ' / 131, 'see what remains - ' / 133, like darkened wings - ' / 133, 'here we are - ' / 133, 'what dark thirst - ' / 135, 'the droplets - ' / 135, 'it's time. - ' / 137, 'march. people - ' / 137, 'peace. - '/ 137, 'crows in their poems - ' / 139, 'three poems in the manner of Ryueans' / 139, 'all right. - ' / 143, 'see the miniature - ' / 145, 'the colourful dot - ' / 145 KARLIS VERDINS: 'Come to Me' / 151, 'In the Dharma Field '/ 151, 'To the Eagle' / 151, 'Angel' / 153, 'I' / 155, 'Shepherd' / 155, 'Rules of Conduct' / 155, 'New Life' / 157, 'Why Deny It' / 157, 'Weather Forecast' / 159, 'Rain' / 159, 'Live' / 161, 'Mummy, I Have a Plan!' / 161, 'We' / 163, 'Problems' / 165, 'Renovation' / 165, 'Snowman' / 167, 'Status Quo' / 167, 'Letter' / 167, 'Signs' / 169
