Poems from „Išgludinti požymiai“(„Polished features') are distinguished by authenticity of experiences. By open self-expression poet creates the world, revealing dramatic its features. In his poems especially strong is felt tension of time, striving for harmony and meaningfullness of surrounding world. Poetic language of Kęstutis Rastenis is reserved, predominated by philosophical thought, dramatic situations of the hero are expressed by spacious metaphor, exact image.

„Tolimas miestas'(„Distant city“) is second book of poet Kęstutis Rastenis(b.1950)(first was published in 1988) in which are published poems written in the last 10 years. For poems are peculiar notes of tragic anxiety and existential meditation and reflexion of being.

In the third book „Alone in the night in Finland“ poet is freely wandering across Space and Time, but always as being beaten off in the wall of destiny. Sanskrit and „Persian moanings', Nibelungen Ring and St.Francis, Schopenhauer and Camus. Rilke and Beckett. In short it is expressed in the lines:“Elliot is meeting Dante on London Bridge. I meet Elliot in Helsinki's street.“ „Mixture of nations involves into whirlpool: Estonians, Finns, Swedes, Russians, Indians“, „Arab slaves', „Kurdish beings“, 'blacks from Somali“.

„In Strindberg's cafe' is the fourth book of the new poems of poet Kęstutis Rastenis in which some reminiscences from Helsinki come together with thoughts about being and non-being, tragic state of the world.