Book record
Words Apart and Others
Jonas Mekas
Translated from Lithuanian by Vyt Bakaitis
Words Apart and Others, by Jonas Mekas and translated by Vyt Bakaitis, brings a Lithuanian-born artist and filmmaker into the poetry library through language, displacement, and fragment. Mekas is often associated with avant-garde film and diary-like attention, and this title suggests a body of work concerned with distance: words apart from homeland, from image, from memory, from one another. I would read the book through the lens of exile and montage. The poems may work less like monuments and more like frames, glimpses, scraps held long enough to matter. Bakaitis’s translation carries Lithuanian poetic memory into English while also engaging a writer whose artistic life was deeply international. This collection seems valuable for readers interested in the overlap between poetry, cinema, diary, and displaced modernism.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Rail Editions
- Language
- Lithuanian
- Country
- Lithuania
- ISBN
- 9780990788140