Lina Ramona Vitkauskas

Between Plague & Kleptocracy Lina Ramona Vitkauskas

In this collection, the poet cross-references poems of two dead poets: Vsevolod Nekrasov and Bill Knott, serving as medium, picking up bits of posthumous conversations and imagined collaborations between the two poets. She hybridizes and recreates their texts, projecting possible dialogues during this perilous time in history: of pandemic, forced isolation, economic decline, and the US finding itself with a pack of kleptocrats and their sycophants overtaking the three branches of government.