Poetry
Varnos prie plento
Not translated into English
Antanas Miškinis · 1935
Synopsis
Crows by the roadside: the collection sets village against town. The poet, who has left his village, returns to it in spirit, to the house where he was born, and shows himself as an uprooted man, torn between two worlds; a young townswoman, the small-town petty bourgeoise, passes through his verse. The poems take up the turns of folk song, tell of love affairs in the manner of romances and move from elegy to biting irony, in a tone of lyrical playfulness.
Context
The second collection by its author, after a first book published in 1928, it places him among the neo-Romantic poets of the 1930s, who united Lithuanian popular lyricism with Western modernism. Rita Tūtlytė notes in it the lessons of the Four Winds and the legacy of Vaižgantas and Binkis, and observes that the author received the publisher Sakalas's prize in 1935. The playfulness and irony that dominate these poems remained the mark of his work until 1940.
Who it is for
Short poems, close to song; no French or English translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
Regarded, together with his two other pre-war collections, as the core of its author's early work.
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