Published on December 17, 2024 at 3:12 p.m. / Modified on December 17, 2024 at 3:13 p.m.
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Jonas Mekas, the filmmaker, born in the village of Semeniskai, Lithuania, in 1922, and died in 2019 in Brooklyn, New York, where he had emigrated in 1949. The poetic sum published by Editions Nous, presented exhaustively by Stéphane Bouquet, one of the translators of this book, will contribute, and we rejoice in making Mekas’ poetry better known. We hear a voice of great originality with poignant lyrical accents, of classical and modernist writing at the same time.
The 26 episodes of Idylls of Semeniskai (1948) sing about the seasons, the plowing of the vegetable gardens, the village market, the forests, the children, the neighbors and the women of his childhood, the stifling heat, the rain and the scent of summer nights, the snow at Christmas:
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