intimate familiarity — only to shock him afterwards with the realization that the flower was not known at home, the river bears some strange German name, and the morning promises another day of hard labor for alien masters. Naturally enough, the dispossessed farmer, Bradūnas, was at the center of the new mythology. In several collections of poetry entitled Nine Ballads (1955), Marshland Fires (1958) and The Silver Bridles (1964), he elaborated the concept of man's existence as a sacrifice at the altar of life and thus also at the altar of both pagan and Christian God, in the native land, over the course of centuries. His poems are complex in their implied references to the continuum of life through all the Lithuanian generations which had sacrificed themselves in order that their land should prosper green again and again" (). Works Poetry collections Vilniaus varpai : sonetai. (1943) Pėdos arimuos : eilėraščiai. (1944) Svetimoji duona : eilėraščiai. (1945) Apeigos : eilėraščiai. (1948) Devynios baladės. (1955) Morenų ugnys : eilėraščiai. (1958) Sidabrinės kamanos. (1964) Alkana kelionė : [eilėraščiai]. (1976) Užeigoje prie Vilniaus vieškelio (1981) Prierašai : [eilėraščiai]. (1983) Krikšto vanduo Joninių naktį : [eilėraščiai]. (1987) Duona ir druska : poezija. (1992) Apie žemę ir dangų : eilėraščiai. (1997) Selected works Įaugom Nemuno upyne : rinktinė. (1990) Prie vieno stalo : poezijos rinktinė. (1990) Iš grumsto ir iš dvasios. (1994) Lietuviškoji trilogija. (1994) Sutelktinė : eilėraščiai. (2001) Poems Maras : poema. (1947) Sonatos ir fugos : susitikimai su Čiurlioniu. (1967) Donelaičio kapas : eilėraščiai. (1970) Pokalbiai su karalium : anno domini 1323–1973. (1973) Edited works of poetry and literature Žemė (1951) Lietuvių poezija išeivijoje, 1945–1971 (1971) "Poezija" by Vytautas Mačernis (1961) Lietuvių literatūra svetur, 1945–1967 (1968) Antologija "Keturi" (1986) Lietuvių egzodo literatūra, 1940–1990 (1992) Libretto Libretto for the opera, Magnus Dux, by Darius Lapinskas (1984). Awards and honors National Prize Laureate (1993) Winner of National Poetry Contest for Poetry Spring (2002) Sources Lithuanian Literature Encyclopedia Poetry of Kazys Bradunas in English Poetry of Kazys Bradunas in Lithuanian External links 1917 births 2009 deaths People from Vilkaviškis District Municipality Lithuanian male poets Lithuanian-American culture in Chicago Writers from Baltimore Writers from Chicago Recipients of the Lithuanian National Prize Vilnius University alumni 20th-century poets