Alexandra Büchler

Stories by 16 women from the Czech Republic. In the title story by Daniela Fischerova, a girl dresses in animal skins to hide her beauty, while Tereza Bouckova's A Woman from the Region of Tyre is on infertility in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Allskin and Other Tales by Contemporary Czech Women

This anthology spans the last thirty years of Czech history, a period filled with "random political oppression [and] ... a tradition of humour, the absurd and the surreal."--Cover.

Modern Czech Writing

This Side of Reality

The six poets whose work is included in this collection have become known to the wider Czech readership in the past ten to fifteen years, despite the fact that they belong to two very different generations: the generation exiled by the totalitarian regime of pre-Velvet Revolution Czechoslovakia - whether from public literary life or from the country itself - and the younger generation which started publishing in the late 1990s. Both were faced with the task of mending the broken continuity of Czech poetry, reclaiming the sources of its inspiration - whether it may be the subconscious and dreams, the undercurrents of human relationships, or closely observed everyday objects and situations which acquire a poetic and ontological significance - and, ultimately, with the task of restoring the very medium of poetic expression, language itself.

Six Czech Poets

Fiona Sampson

Jean Boase-Beier

In this title, 20 young poets, two each from the ten Eastern and Central European countries acceding to the European Union in May 2004, are represented, the 'new poetics' from the 'new Europe'. It is a parallel-text volume, with original language/English translation on facing pages.

Alexandra Büchler

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