"To the pantheon of East European poets--Zagajewski, Szymborska,
Herbert, Holub--we must now add Martinaitis. 'K.B., ' the poet's
common-man alter ego, has one foot in the miseries and fears of the
post-Soviet era, one in the usual turmoils of the human self. In Laima
Vince's wonderful translation, this poetry is sharp, comic, salty, yet
at the same time overflowing with compassion and tenderness."--Alicia
Suskin Ostriker
Marcelijus Martinaitis is a well-known Lithuanian poet and essayist.
He has published ten collections of poetry. This is his first collection
in English.
Laima Vince is a poet, writer, and translator. She teaches at the
University of Southern Maine and directs the Stonecoast Summer Writers'
Conference.