Six Latvian Poets, ed. Ieva Lesinska Enitharmon Press Curl up with A

Curl up with A

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Six Latvian Poets, ed. Ieva Lesinska Enitharmon Press Curl up with AIn 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