The Missing Links
Tom McCarthy interviewed in the New York Times‘s Paper Cuts blog: “I’ve just signed off the final proofs of my novel “C,” which will be out with Alfred A. Knopf this fall. Now I’m going about the agonizing process of starting a new one. I say “agonizing” because it takes a while for the little […]
Maintenant #10 – Donatas PetroÅ¡ius
Democracy in art is no good. It should be a kind of hierarchy I think. It would be easier for those who are trying to understand. Now I personally am engaged with Latvian poetry (because I am learning Latvian), also Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian. All these young people like us Lithuanians survived the Soviet regime. We survived this everyday absurdity, the ideological lies, the metaphysical evil. The other thing that unites us is the poetry of the free world — in Lithuania and all post-Soviet countries, young poets discover themselves and try to translate Anglo-American, European, Hispanic poetry — and everything from the languages that were forbidden to us in youth.
In the tenth of his Maintenant series, SJ Fowler interviews the Lithuanian poet Donatas Petrošius.
Three Poems
I cannot cease writing you,
though I’m swept off my feet
into English out of inertia into Polish
with errors from the heavens my snow is
transformed into Russian I walk
in the along both rapidly melting Arbats
in the capital of this empire of foreign feelings
having taken along a double mirror
so I wouldn’t have to turn
to see if you are following
as I prepare
to transplant to the plains of my birth
By Donatas Petrošius.
3:AM Reloaded
What you (may have) missed on 3:AM recently: Poetry: In the ninth of his Maintenant series, SJ Fowler interviews the Slovak poet Mária Ridzoňová FerenÄuhová; ‘Four Poems’ by Mária Ridzoňová FerenÄuhová; Will Stone translates a selection of poetry by Georg Trakl Fiction: ‘What Happened to the Horse’ by Sam Jordison Reviewed: Max Dunbar on Daniel […]