In 2005, Inta Miške Ezergailis died of cancer. She was a professor at Cornell, and well known in Latvian literary circles as a critic. She was a long-time contributing editor of Jaunā Gaita and the author of Nostalgia and Beyond, a review of women writers in 20’th century Latvian literature. It became known after she died that she had been writing poetry in English. This poetry has been published in three volumes to date, the third one just recently. Andrew Ezergailis, her husband, sent me some copies of her newest book, and I copied out of it (i.e. scanned) an essay by Astida Stahnke, which is a good introduction to her poetry to anyone who is interested. See it here:
http://zagarins.net/sveiks/2005/IntasPoems/Stahnke.htm
Juris Zagarins
