Miroslav Holub

Collected English Translations

Poems Before & After

A collection of short essays and observations explores the interaction between everyday life and the scientific world

Disease, Politics, and Other Human Conditions

Shedding Life

Essays

The Dimension of the Present Moment

خمس دقائق بعد غارة جوية

Peter Porter

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Jack Mapanje

Yang Lian

Abdullah Al-Udhari

Harriet Harvey-Wood

Banned Poetry (IOC)

Index on Censorship

Ian Milner

Before are Miroslav Holub's poems from the 1950s and 60s, poems written before the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. After are translations of his later poetry, all written after 1968.

Miroslav Holub was the Czech Republic's most important poet, and also one of her leading immunologists. His fantastical and witty poems give a scientist's bemused view of human folly and other life on the planet. Mixing myth, history and folktale with science and philosophy, his plainly written, sceptical poems are surreal mini-dramas often pivoting on paradoxes. He was first introduced to English readers with a Penguin Selected Poems in 1967. This book presents work written by Holub prior to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, later forming the 'Before' part of Poems Before & After: Collected English Translations (1990).

The Fly

Aldous Huxley

Josef Kostohryz

Stanislav Berounský

Konec civilizace

This collection spans almost 40 years of writing, much of it under circumstances that involved risk and silence, living under Communism in Czechoslovakia, pursuing a career as a scientist, and carrying on the 20th century's experimental tradition as represented by artists like Arp, Miro, and William Carlos Williams. By the time of his death in 1998, Miroslav Holub had become one of the most widely acclaimed poets on the planet.

Selected and New Poems

Intensive Care

Beautiful poetry of the genius from Czech Republic, one of the sanest voices twenty of century. Translation of anthology from of the whole work Ewald Osers.

We‘ll Never Get Parts Like That Again

Vycházeje z vlastních zážitků a setkání při pobytu v New Yorku, se autor zamýšlí nad způsobem existence člověka v soudobé civilizaci, jejímž hypermodelem je svět americký. Charakterem existence při takovém životě, který "nenínadále stulen v matečném klínu bezúhonnosti", je "kalamita". Záznam nesmírného množství zajímavých postřehů a živých detailů nakonec vyúsťuje ve víru, že lidé se vždy postaví proti tomu, co je přesahuje, a tedy i proti nadměrnécivilizaci.

Žít v New Yorku

Cestopisné prózy

Básnické pohledy do rozmanitých oblastí života a zájmů dnešního člověka.

Jdi a otevři dveře

Miroslav Holub

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