Dreamverse by Jindrich Styrsky and translated by Jed Slast

This is poetry from Czech Republic.

Dreamverse by Jindrich Styrsky translated by Jed Slast is published by Twisted Spoon Press. This is a Book originally written in Czech. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.788086264387E12.

Dreamverse, translated from the Czech by Jed Slast, brings Jindrich Styrsky’s Czech-language work into English through Twisted Spoon Press. Published in 2018, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Štyrský’s title makes the book feel close to the dream-image, where the poem does not explain the unconscious so much as let it behave in public. What I want from a translated poetry library is not only coverage, but temperament: the chance to meet a mind arranging the world differently. This volume does that work. It gives the reader enough ground to enter, then enough strangeness to keep the encounter from becoming merely informational.

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.

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