Beschreibung:
EUGENIJUS ALISANKA was born in 1960 and is considered one of Lithuania's leading poets. His work includes articles on poetry and culture. City of Ash is his second collection of poetry; his first, Equinox won the Zigmas Gélé prize, given annually to the best debut book of Lithuanian poetry.
Although the city in the title of this sensitive collection refers to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, City of Ash serves as a universal geography of the contemporary soul in an urban context, built on the fragments of the past. Through his poetry, Eugenijus Alisanka searches for personal and historical meaning within the framework of time, recognizing both the demands of the self and the impossibility of avoiding what came before, whether human or cultural.