Description: 'Unlocking the Word' is an anthology of poems found in the text of passages of prose. Poets who find these passages, extract them, break them into appropriate lines without editing or rewriting the text.
Brief description: Jonas Zdanys, a bilingual poet and translator, is the author of forty-eight other books, including 23 collections of poetry, written in English or in Lithuanian; 21 volumes of translations of Lithuanian poetry and fiction into English; and 4 anthologies for which he served as editor. He has received a number of prizes, book awards, writing and travel grants, and public recognitions for his own poetry and for his translations.