Lithuanian/English bilingual poetry collection.Eugenijus Ališanka\'s astonishing poetry collection, from unwritten histories, shuns linguistic and symbolic conventions to create a poetic landscape that is rooted in his homeland yet also connects to the shared European literary canon. Poems set in a rural Lithuanian village of the post-communist period take on a universal dimension, while in other poems unidentified shadow figures from history are reimagined within a Baltic context. These lucid, earthy poems articulate intellectual struggles in an unpretentious manner, granting the reader that which the speaker himself fears he cannot attain: the expanded ability to identify with others, as when we see the entire history of a people in the poignant detail of a man being borne to his grave wearing \"his wedding suit split slightly in the back” (“nothing much\"); and the attainment of self-determination within a community of others, as in the extraordinary Dickinsonian concluding poem, \"once in my life,\" in which the speaker manages at his funeral to accomplish what \"I wanted at least once in my life” to be able to do, and which these poems enable the reader to do, namely \"to be myself without being alone.\" In from unwritten histories, Ališanka seeks to write a history that, whether it exists or not, will restore his existence, locate him in the divine cosmos, and make him present to himself.A proof copy in very good condition. A former owner has written on the rear of the front cover and also on the first page, as pictured.