Contemporary Lithuanian Poetry: A Baltic Anthology

by Inara Cedrins (Editor)

This anthology presents three generations of poets from those born before the Soviet occupation, during it, and shortly before the country regained independence in the 1990's. This poetry will catch you by surprise as it lays out individual experiences of exile and homeland.

300 pages, Paperback

First published June 16, 2013

About the author

Inara Cedrins is an artist, writer and translator who received her B.A. in Writing from Columbia College in Chicago and her M.A. in Arts Administration at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. Her anthology of contemporary Latvian poetry written while Latvia was under Soviet occupation was published by the University of Iowa Press, and her new Baltic anthology, three books of poetry from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, has been published by the University of New Orleans Press, with her prints as cover art. She went to the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing in 1998 to study traditional Chinese ink painting on silk, remaining five years to teach at universities including Tsinghua University and Peking University, as well as to the People's Liberation Army and students at the Central Academy of Fine Art, designing the courses and using poetry as a vehicle. Two collections of her poetry were published bilingually by the Foreign Literature Press in Beijing. In 2003 she went to Nepal to study the technique of thangka painting. After the king’s coup d’etat, she relocated to Riga, where she started a literary agency called The Baltic Edge and taught Creative Writing at the University of Latvia. A collection of her poetry titled Fugitive Connections was published by the Virtual Artists Collective in 2006. She lived in the Albuquerque/Santa Fe area, and wrote a book titled Albuquerque Ghosts for Schiffer Press, published in 2009, before returning to Chicago for an artist’s residency at the Merchandise Mart in 2010.