Only You. Poems for Riga
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This dazzling, originally-designed book is a collection of verses by Alexanders Caks (1901-1950), whose work marked the beginning of modern poetry in Latvia. He made his debut during the first decade of the independent Latvian state, when cultural life did not flourish in any particular way. Instead, it seemed conventional and stagnant. The poet aimed a very precise slap in the face of public taste, earning bitter criticism in various publications. At the height of his talent, he was forced to write about the shepherd boy sitting at his campfire and playing songs on his homemade flute, celebrating the Soviet motherland. This was the process, which Latvian literature was forced to undergo in the 1950s, but it was particularly painful for the poet who was, in the end, a symbolic figure in modern Latvian literature.
