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Six Slovak Poets
Six Slovak Poets is the sixth volume in a series of bilingual anthologies of contemporary verse from Europe and beyond and features the work of poets of an older generation who started publishing in the 1960s. They lived through the difficult times that followed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, through the political, social and cultural transformation of the past twenty years since the fall of the communist regime in 1989, and through the division of the country in 1993 which gave birth to today's Slovak Republic. The work of these poets continues the experimentation with form and language of the pre-war Central European avant-garde, with added elements of myth, legend, folk tales, and references to religion and the natural world. Also integral to their work are philosophical reflection and exploration of the moral issues raised by the circumstances in which they worked. The result is a densely woven, polythematic free verse representative of the poetics of a generation that has been central to Slovak literary life for four decades, a generation whose approach to poetry younger writers who have subsequently entered the literary scene are still developing or reacting against. Parallel-text: Slovak / English
Eternal Traffic
Mila Haugova has written a moving book about the farewell of loved ones and the slipping away of one's own life. The starting point is a double loss: her mother dies and her lover goes his own way. During her dead mother's childhood and distant past, the loved ones have faced a hoped-for future. Now only a reduced daily life remains, shot through with ever present memories. Haugova overlays the departed, and now recalculated, images of childhood and days spent with her lover. Is it possible to find some memory of lost warmth in this cold world?
Re-encounter and farewells are one in Haugova's poetry: there are intimate companions in the absence of loved ones, in the acceptance of their disappearance, which over time develop a cathartic force that makes possible new love.
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22,45 €
At the Skin Resort
At the Skin Resort is a collection poetry set in Central and Eastern Europe and written in the years following the revolutions of 1989. The poet, James Sutherland-Smith went there to work early in 1989 and found himself caught up in th events of that time. He has settled in Slovakia which is a country in the heart of the Slavonic nations and subject to the various influences and pressures from north, south,east and west. It is a place of astonishing variety interms of culture, history and nature and is exemplary for recent and more ancient history. Sutherland-Smith's poems are not,however, travel poems, but poems whose significance communicates beyond their locale.
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15,95 €
Scent of the Unseen: Collected Poems
"In a time when western culture generates most of its symbols through the distortions of television, Mila Haugová retains the remarkable ability to sing of the symbolic heights and depths of experience. Bold, iconic, and revelatory, these translations do great services to the poems of a major Central European writer." Andy Brown
Introduction by Fiona Sampson.
Translated by James and Vera Sutherland.
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19,45 €