The Cerulean Bird by Matilda Olkinaitė, trans. by Laima Vincė Aviva Dautch Are all the gates in

Are all the gates in this book folly

neurodiverse person existing in all the joy and rage that that brings

surprise and wisdom are often right next to each other… Each of Margarit’s poems is its own being

then showing us that we don’t…For me

Characters appear – Camille Claudel

The Cerulean Bird by Matilda Olkinaitė, trans. by Laima Vincė Aviva Dautch Are all the gates inMatilda Olkinait was only 19 years old when, in 1941, she was murdered by Nazi collaborators in her native Lithuania. Many of the poems in this chapbook were writt en in a notebook that, prior to Matildas death, had been given to the Catholic parish priest, Father Juozapas Matelionis, for safekeeping. Shortly before his death, Matelionis revealed its hiding place to organist and political dissident, Alfredas Andrijauskas who, in his turn, kept the