Book record
Caravan Lullabies
Ilze Butkute
Translated from Lithuanian by Rimas Uzgiris
Caravan Lullabies, by Ilze Butkute and translated by Rimas Uzgiris, is a Lithuanian poetry collection whose title joins movement and sleep. A caravan travels; a lullaby soothes. Together, they suggest poems of migration, maternal music, road memory, and rest taken under uncertain conditions. I would read this book for its sense of song in motion, for the way tenderness may survive inside displacement. Uzgiris’s translation gives English-language readers access to contemporary Lithuanian lyric, a field too rarely centered in translation conversations. The title does not sound static. It carries wheels, voices, night, and the fragile comfort of being sung to while moving through the world. This seems like a collection for readers drawn to travel, care, and the almost ancient connection between poetry and song.
- Published
- 2016
- Publisher
- A Midsummer Nights Press
- Language
- Lithuanian
- Country
- Lithuania
- ISBN
- 9781938334238