English and Lithuanian. The bilingual anthology offers the first comprehensive presentation in English of the work of the major post-World War II emigre and Soviet Lithuanian poets. The twenty-seven writers presented in the book include the acknowledged modern Lithuanian masters and a number of trend-setting younger writers whose talents developed during, and whose writing was shaped by, the traumatic years since 1944, when the Soviet armies swept westward across Lithuania, completely wrecking all the structures of pre-war Lithuanian society and forcing people of all walks of life either to flee the Soviet advance or to retrench and accept the dictates of the Soviet ideology.