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Básnická sbírka - citové a existenciální bilancování ženy, zřejmě na sklonku života. Nevíme o ní mnoho, poznáváme ji však přes její pocity, zamýšlení, zoufalství i víru a naději. Od tklivějších tónů směřuje sbírka k projasnění, zklidnění a láskyplnému smíření. A protože životy a osudy nás všech si jsou více méně podobné, je možné, že tato sbírka přinese nejednomu čtenáři trochu ulehčení, podobně jako je přinesla autorovi.

Musí být poezie neprodejná? Může být přece stejně přitažlivá, jako žena na této obálce.

Milostná lyrika v podání českého básníka žijícího dlouhá léta v emigraci, překladatele básnického díla Vladimíra Holana do angličtiny, je jemná, procítěná a oduševnělá. Kéž by každá žena mohla být milována takovým způsobem lásky, jaký je vlastní této poezii.

This collection of poems, The World in My Mouth, celebrates the complexity of the natural world, both in and around us. The author pays homage to the scientific ideas of the renowned physicist Paul Davies and to his notion that science too is a form of poetry: it is the poetry of nature. Josef Tom, who trained as a mechanical engineer in Czechoslovakia, lives and writes in Melbourne, Australia.

Through all the changes in direction of Holan's life and work, the word wall took on an immense breadth of meaning to him. He chose the epigraph "thy walls are always before my eyes" from the prophet Isaiah to refl ect the sensory boundaries of the body and the boundaries of existence. Th is book is an anthology of Holan's poems connected by the central motif of a wall or walls. The walls of creation, the walls of words that open to vision and hearing, are dramatically rendered in small poetic portraits (Keats and Homer) and in certain echoes or responses to the poetry of, for instance,...

2005 marks the centenary anniversary of the birth in Prague of Vladimir Holan (1905-1980). He was one of the great poets of his time, yet is almost unknown to the English-speaking literary world. In the darkest part of the history of his country, he created such graphic poetry, with expressions and imagery so deep and rich, that the two apocalyptic poems in this book seem to be a precursor to the angst of the whole world today, as it struggles with the turmoil of terrorism and aggression. Never before published in English, the very title of this book must surely intrigue prospective readers....

2005 marks the centenary anniversary of the birth in Prague of Vladimir Holan (1905-1980). He was one of the great poets of his time, yet is almost unknown to the English-speaking literary world. In the darkest part of the history of his country, he created such graphic poetry, with expressions and imagery so deep and rich, that the two apocalyptic poems in this book seem to be a precursor to the angst of the whole world today, as it struggles with the turmoil of terrorism and aggression. Never before published in English, the very title of this book must surely intrigue prospective readers....