Absolute Gravedigger by Vítězslav Nezval and translated by Stephan Delbos, Tereza Novická

This is poetry from Czech Republic.

Absolute Gravedigger by Vítězslav Nezval translated by Stephan Delbos, Tereza Novická is published by Twisted Spoon Press. This is a Book originally written in Czech. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.788086264493E12.

Absolute Gravedigger, translated from the Czech by Stephan Delbos, Tereza Novická, brings Vítězslav Nezval’s Czech-language work into English through Twisted Spoon Press. Published in 2016, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Nezval’s surrealist imagination turns burial, dream, erotic charge, and political unease into a pressure system where nothing stays in one symbolic position for long. The pleasure of a book like this is the permission it gives to move slowly. A reader does not have to master every reference to feel the work at hand. Sometimes the task is simply to notice how a sentence leans, how an image opens, how a voice from Czech Republic changes the room around English.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.