Description
| Product ID: | 9781906570385 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Six Slovak Poets |
| Authors: | Author: Jan Buzassy |
| Page Count: | 172 |
| Subjects: | Poetry anthologies (various poets), Poetry anthologies (various poets) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Presentingsix of Slovakia's leading poets - Jan Buzassy, Mila Haugova, Kamil Peteraj, Daniel Hevier, Peter Repka and Ivan Strpka - with an introductory essay by Igor Hochel which sets the poets within a wider literary context. This is a bi-lingual edition, with the Slovak original and John Minahane's translation into English on facing pages. 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 |
| Imprint Name: | Arc Publications |
| Publisher Name: | Arc Publications |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-03-01 |
