Words Apart and Others by Jonas Mekas and translated by Vyt Bakaitis

This is poetry from Lithuania.

Words Apart and Others by Jonas Mekas translated by Vyt Bakaitis is published by Rail Editions. This is a Book originally written in Lithuanian. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78099078814E12.

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.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.