Six Latvian Poets, ed. Ieva Lesinska Enitharmon Press twenty-five years on

twenty-five years on

In one poem the speaker “forgets the Urdu / word for loneliness

move the heart while opening the mind

Eliot is called upon to become the completely public man

CND rallies

Six Latvian Poets, ed. Ieva Lesinska Enitharmon Press twenty-five years onIn 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 Leinska and by the leading poet and translator of the older generation Juris