Seed in Snow Author:Knuts Skujenieks, Bitita Vinklers (Translator) This first US publication of Knuts Skujenieks -- one of Latvia's foremost contemporary poets -- is the author's most important and widely-translated body of work. Convicted in 1962 of anti-Soviet sentiment, Skujenieks wrote these poems during seven years of imprisonment at a labor camp in Mordovia. Vivid and expressive, this collection o... more »vercomes the physical experience of confinement in order to assert a limitless creative freedom.« less