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 Justinas Marcinkevičius (born 1930), born in a tiny Lithuanian village Važatkiemis, having grown up during the post-war period, evokes in his poetry a romanticized version of childhood spent in the Lithuanian countryside, of first love, of man's relationship with nature. He graduated from the department of history and philology at Vilnius University in 1954 and served for a number of years as vice-chairman of the board of the official Union of Lithuanian Writers. Since the emergence of Marcinkevičius' first book I Plead for a Word in 1955, he has published fourteen collections of poetry, three historical plays, two collections of essays, a novella and translations into Lithuanian of the work of Mickiewicz, Pushkin, Jesenin, Lermontov, and the Kalevala. In Marcinkevičius' poetry specific and solid peasant thinking is combined with a mind seeking to draw broad general conclusions, and the tradition of Lithuanian poetry singing the earth's praises with contemporary modes of poetic thought. As a poet, he has sought to grasp the essence of national experience and give it fresh artistic expression. In his lyrical verse Marcinkevičius strives to comprehend the real meaning of what is going on inside man and society and moves the reader with his ardent lyrical confessions.
See: http://www.efn.org/~valdas/marcinkevicius.html
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