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Early Poems 1966-1969

By: Jonas Zdanys

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Early Poems 1966-1969

By: Jonas Zdanys

The poems in this pocket companion to Jonas Zdanys' Collected Poems 1970-2020 are a valuable and revealing look at the springboard of his poetic career.

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Black Spruce Press

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1733888225

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9781733888226

Du Balsai, Eilėraščiai Ir Vertimai

By: Kornelijus Platelis,Jonas Zdanys

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Du Balsai, Eilėraščiai Ir Vertimai

By: Kornelijus Platelis,Jonas Zdanys

Two Voices/Du Balsai is a literary celebration of a thirty year friendship between poets and translators Kornelijus Platelis and Jonas Zdanys. Over those years, both have translated each other's poems, sent one another literary questions and explanations, enjoyed the currents of their aesthetic discussions as they moved to poetic consensus, and engaged in interesting and essential conversations about poetry and art. In this bilingual volume, published in English and Lithuanian, Zdanys and Platelis engage with one another as poets and as translators. Each presents himself as well as the other, through original poems and through their respective translations on the facing pages in the other language. The poems include the most recent published texts by each poet as well as some yet unpublished work, and the respective translations are new and made especially for these pages. The work in both languages reveals textures and nuances of a long and productive literary collusion. Above all else, these poems and translations provide an engaging affirmation of the work Platelis and Zdanys have been doing together, work in two voices that bridges the years and crosses an ocean, and thereby affirm how each has contributed to and learned from the work of the other.

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128

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Purple Flag

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094404879X

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9780944048795

Stalemate

A Novel

By: Icchokas Meras,Jonas Zdanys

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Stalemate

A Novel

By: Icchokas Meras,Jonas Zdanys

A classic of Holocaust literature from “one of the great masters of the short novel.” —The New Yorker In the Vilna Ghetto during World War II, Nazi Commandant Schoger demands that all children be sent to the death camp. When Abraham Lipman pleads with him to spare their lives, Schoger reconsiders, and tells Lipman there will be a chess match between himself and Lipman’s only surviving son, Isaac, a chess prodigy. If Isaac wins, the children will live, but Isaac will die. If Isaac loses, the children will die, but Isaac will live. Only a draw will save the ghetto from this terrible predicament. The chess game begins: a nightmarish contest played over the course of several evenings, witnessed by an audience impotent to act, staking the lives of their children on a stalemate. This is a moving story of a father and a son who shame their cruel perpetrator with their dignity, spirit, and extraordinary courage. Stalemate speaks to the power of humor even under the direst circumstances. As a parable that gives voice to the unspeakable, Stalemate is an antidote to despair. “Gripping . . . a truly memorable work.” —Booklist

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168

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Other Press, LLC

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1635421284

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9781635421286

St. Brigid's Well

By: Jonas Zdanys

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St. Brigid's Well

By: Jonas Zdanys

St. Brigid's Well began on the West Coast of Ireland as Jonas Zdanys was teaching a seminar in Dingle, County Kerry, on writing the literature of place. It is a single lyrical narrative poem, composed in stanzas and sections, that considers place as a described location, as a foundation and springboard for metaphorical representations and explorations, and as a wide and flexible container filled with people and actions and things, all connected and all ever-changing. There is a fourth dimension of place at play in this poem as well, the dimension of time, which ultimately sculpts all three, pushing and pulling them across many horizons. The poem's focus on the Dingle Peninsula, past and present, the vistas along the Ring of Kerry, and the literal as well as metaphorical pilgrimage eastward to St. Brigid's Well in Kildare is linked to the figure of Brigid, who serves as a touchstone in that exploration both as Christian saint and as pagan goddess. It is Brigid, in both forms, who appears in these pages as a principal definer and texture of the Irish landscape as it has blossomed and changed - and as it has remained constant - in its physical dimensions and across the currents of time. This poem invites and deepens the understanding of that landscape and of how a "poetry of place" can also define the interior human landscape, encouraging us to understand and celebrate the world in which we live and ourselves in it.

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0944048749

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9780944048740

Salt

By: Jonas Zdanys

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Salt

By: Jonas Zdanys

In the poems and linked sequences of his thirty-fifth book, Jonas Zdanys transforms the landscapes he sees, imagines and remembers into new metaphorical configurations and image-patterns, all shaped by his sense of the pervasive and inescapable oneness of the things of the world. Through those transformations he creates a personal landscape in these pages, a meditative place where he is able to "tie up loose ends, understand the laws/of the universe, feel the ecstasy/that radiates from the tips of the fingers." But Zdanys does more than shape the luminous phenomena around him. His essential procedure in these poems is to reconquer the real, using unusual figurative constructs, varied forms and expressions, metaphoric eruptions, and recurring reformulated images to do so. The result is a framework of evocations, memories, mysterious suggestions, and ineffable presences that enables him to define the elemental world, that "imaginary country" ringed by flowers of salt, where "time is the only durable flesh/and lovers flow together like water." These are engaging and complex poems, carefully chiseled personal and artistic self-evaluations that seek to unite body and spirit, along the way providing a glimpse of the infinite and ending on a note of inspiration and hope. A bilingual, award-winning poet and translator, Zdanys serves as Chief Academic Officer for the State of Connecticut.

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0977297454

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9780977297450

The Angled Road Collected Poems 1970-2020

By: Jonas Zdanys

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The Angled Road Collected Poems 1970-2020

By: Jonas Zdanys

This book contains poems that Jonas Zdanys published over his 50 years career as a poet.

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286

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Lamar University Press

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1942956762

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9781942956761

Three White Horses

Still Lifes

By: Jonas Zdanys

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Three White Horses

Still Lifes

By: Jonas Zdanys

Three White Horses, ' the forty-eighth book by Jonas Zdanys, is a lyrical-narrative sequence of poems that uses the commitments of lyric poetry to tell a story that unfolds in a closed room in an unnamed city on one snowy night in late November. The poems present pinpoints of experience, internal and external geographies, collectively framed between midnight and dawn, and use elegiac and meditative language to consider deeply human yearnings for meaning and transcendence in a liminal world. The book is enriched by twenty-six new inkbrush paintings by Sou Vai Keng, an artist from Macau, whose abstract paintings are parallel explorations of ideas considered in the poems. Together, poems and paintings create an evocative and powerful artistic whole, a new and original look at the interstices in the search for permanence in an impermanent world. This is Zdanys' finest work to date. It is a mature and resonant poetic vision.

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1942956436

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Book's by Jonas Zdanys

Early Poems 1966-1969

Early Poems 1966-1969

Du Balsai, Eilėraščiai Ir Vertimai

Du Balsai, Eilėraščiai Ir Vertimai

Stalemate

Stalemate

St. Brigid's Well

St. Brigid's Well

Salt

Salt

The Angled Road Collected Poems 1970-2020

The Angled Road Collected Poems 1970-2020

Three White Horses

Three White Horses

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