“These are poems about what happens afterward – after the great deed, after deprivations, after glory. When the fate of the hero is already dissolving into oblivion. When your fate has already been accomplished, as we learn from this book, the poet-hero is relegated to a special, hybrid space of activity: recollection and observation. This kind of work is where I see the sense and the triumph of Landscape with Polyphemus.” – Polina Barskova 

PRAISE

“Tomas Venclova is by nature a tireless wanderer. Like Odysseus, whom one might well call to mind when reading Landscape with Polyphemus. Venclova fits out the world with thoughtful metaphors and, again like Odysseus, tries on the masks of others. Addressing remote spheres, he is sure that he is ‘catching the voices afar.’ And this line of his recalls the poem Brodsky dedicated to him: ‘Only sound is able to separate from a body, like a ghost, Tomas.’” – Alexander Genis 

_{Publication Details}

_{Lithuanian originals, except three poems (“Gallienus Iussit,” “Nezashchitimye zemli,” and “Kostel v Verkhnei Frede”), are included in Tomas Venclova’s book Už Onos ir Bernardinų (Vilnius: Apostrofa, 2023).}

_{Translated from Lithuanian into Russian by Georgy Efremov, Anna Glukhova, Anna Halberstadt and Marina Vojckaya}

_{Preface by Polina Barskova} 

_{Edited by Yasha Klots and Asya Solneman}

_{Design by ELAS}  

_{Bilingual Lithuanian-Russian edition} 

_{Trade paperback}

_{First edition, first printing} 

_{ISBN: 979-8-9916623-4-5}

_{142 pp, 130 x 20 0mm}

_{Publication date: May 15, 2026} 

_{Series: Poetry, No. 1}