{"product_id":"six-czech-poets-paperback","title":"Six Czech Poets - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexandra Buchler\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAlexandra Buchler\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eZbynek Hejda\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArc New Voices from Europe and Beyond: 3 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe third in a series of bilingual anthologies of European poetry and an introduction to the here-and-now of Czech poetry, this volume presents the work of six Czech poets who belong to very different generations. Zbynek Hejda and Viola Fischerova are part of the generation which was exiled by the totalitarian regime of pre-Velvet Revolution Czechoslovakia while Petr Borkovec, Katerrina Rudcenkova, Pavel Kolmacka and Petr Halmay represent the younger generation which started publishing in the late 1990s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll six poets are widely known and highly regarded in the Czech Republic but are unfamiliar to English-language readers, so this anthology is an excellent introduction to the cutting edge of Czech poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSix Czech Poets\u003c\/i\u003e opens with the work of Zbynìk Hejda, widely recognised as one of the most important Czech poets since World War II. One can see why... It is haunting work built upon landscapes, some part of the surface of which gets scratched away, leaving a view, to paraphrase the author, right down to the bone, the death...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdinburgh Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZbynek Hejda, Viola Fischerova, Petr Halmay, Pavel Kolmacka, Petr Borkovec and Katerrina Rudcenkova have all had collections of poetry published in the Czech Republic and abroad. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHejda and Fischerova are two of the great names in late twentieth-century Czech poetry, much revered in their native land; while Borkovec and Rudcenkova are rising stars of the twenty-first century and more widely known. \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 162\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 16, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42742002810943,"sku":"9781904614180","price":23.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/07a8280a7b41299e89d406f495d2a45a.webp?v=1765162422","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/six-czech-poets-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}