From unwritten histories by Eugenijus Ališanka and translated by H. L. Hix

This is poetry from Lithuania.

From unwritten histories by Eugenijus Ališanka translated by H. L. Hix is published by Host Publications. This is a Book originally written in Lithuanian. This was published in 2011.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780924047824E12.

From Unwritten Histories, by Eugenijus Ališanka and translated by H. L. Hix, is a Lithuanian poetry collection that immediately places itself near archive and absence. Unwritten histories are not empty. They are the lives, violences, silences, and local memories that have not been given official form. Ališanka’s title suggests a poetry interested in what remains beside the record, what poetry might touch when history has failed to preserve enough. Hix’s translation brings that inquiry into English with an attention to the philosophical and fragmentary. I would read this book as a meditation on memory’s margins. It may not offer narrative repair, but it can stage the ache of incompletion. For a translated poetry library, this is exactly the kind of title that expands what “history” is allowed to mean.

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