Piano Concerto - Poems [antikvár]

FOREWORD 1 o be on the crest of the poetic wave and popular with the reading public for nearly a quarter of a century has been given to few Latvian poets, so few that they can be counted on the fingers of one hand. In books by Ojars Vacietis published twenty years ago, there are poems that have not stood the test of time and there are occasional poetic devices overdone by the writer himself or by others ; but it would be difficult to find anywhere else such tenderness for humanity, such unquenchable lyrical feeling or such spontaneous emotions. Each of Vacietis' collections is not merely the sum of poems written over a certain interval of time, it is a departure from the conventional, a creation of new ideas and a search for new truths. Most critics are still pondering over the earlier books, trying to adjust to them and to interpret their deeper significance. Is this daring and remarkably expressive poetry a seven-day wonder, ' Translated by Alex Miller.