Refuge & Occasion

Vyt Bakaitis, poet and eminent translator from the Lithuanian, has gathered here poems from the past decade....
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Refuge & Occasion by Bakaitis, Vyt

Refuge & Occasion

$36.25

Refuge & Occasion

$36.25
Author: Vyt Bakaitis
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Vyt Bakaitis, poet and eminent translator from the Lithuanian, has gathered here poems from the past decade. This new collection, Refuge & Occasion, pursues several strands that ultimately braid together with characteristic freedom of shape and music whereby the requirements of the utterance design its flow. He writes: "Strange all I found and still carry/ what I remember left me to wonder." Elegies and lyrics of erotic loss, tensely noted and feelingly unwound form one strand. The poet turns his eye and heart to cruder disappointments of the current political moment in several longer poems that aggressively explore the failures of human action and illusory consolation. "What's real is the fact" the poet wryly notes. There are also several poems to honor significant occasions of being moved and sustained by art along with a number of outright odes to his muses. The charged enigma that winds through all of the poems, however, is the tension of enduring spiritual stasis and uncertainty. "Let's pull out some maps. There are none" is where the poet starts. The mystery of life's refusals is countered by a profound sense of the flow willing "times curvature to catch" both in memory and in ecstatic instances that "the wild wave struck ... young as the storming moment."

Author: Vyt Bakaitis
Publisher: Station Hill Press
Published: 04/01/2022
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9781581772111

About the Author
Vyt Bakaitis is an American poet, translator, and editor born in Lithuania and living in Brooklyn. His first collection of poetry City Country (1991) was followed by Deliberate Proof (2010). He is considered the major translator of modern Lithuanian poetry, represented in the 20th-century anthology Breathing Free (2001). Three additional volumes he translated from the Lithuanian are by contemporary poets Jonas Mekas and Julius Keleras.

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