title: Contemporary Latvian Poetry: A Baltic Anthology
author:  Inara Cedrins 
description: <span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Inara Cedrins</span><span> is an artist, writer and translator who went to China to learn to paint in Chinese ink on silk in 1998, and remained five years teaching English at universities, using poetry as a vehicle. She then studied thangka painting and taught in Nepal; and lived in Riga, teaching Creative Writing at the University of Latvia, in 2005. Her anthology of contemporary Latvian poetry written while Latvia was under Soviet occupation was published by the University of Iowa Press in 1983. Upon returning to America in 2006 she lived in the Albuquerque/Santa Fe area; in 2010 the Chicago Artists Coalition chose her for an artists residency at the Merchandise Mart, and she has remained in Chicago.<br /></span></span>
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  In memory of my grandmother, who taught me to curse in Lithuanian, but never
  told me how to spell any of it. You knew I’d look it up one day, didn’t you,
  Grandma? And I bet you were looking down laughing when I read those real
  definitions.
  
  
  
  
  
  Oh, if only I had known what I was really saying all those years. Life is much
  more interesting because of you.
  
  
  
  
  
  Thanks.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Title Page](../xhtml/title.xhtml)
  
  
  [Copyright Notice](../xhtml/copyrightnotice.xhtml)
  
  
  [Dedication](../xhtml