Kornelijus PlatelisKornelijus Platelis, poet, translator, cultural leader, political activist, and national government official, is the author of eight collections of poetry, several volumes of translations into Lithuanian of American and European poets, and collection of wide-ranging literary and cultural essays. His work, which explores opportunities for personal as well as social liberation and freedom, and individual as well as collective ethical realignment in the labyrinths of history and myth, has been translated into twenty-four European and Asian languages and has received many honors and prizes, including all the major literary awards in Lithuania. Read More Read Less