Eternal Traffic by HAUGOVA and translated by James Sutherland-Smith

This is poetry from Slovakia.

Eternal Traffic by HAUGOVA translated by James Sutherland-Smith is published by ARC Publications. This is a Book originally written in Slovak. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781911469605E12.

Eternal Traffic, by HAUGOVA, is a Slovak poetry collection from Slovakia, translated by James Sutherland-Smith, published by ARC Publications in 2020. It is a Slovak collection by Mila Haugová where movement, recurrence, and psychic congestion shape the lyric field. Traffic here feels both external and internal: roads, bodies, memories, and voices moving through one another. I would not ask the reader to solve this book before feeling it. The better invitation is to start with the image that will not quite explain itself, then follow the pressure of cadence, silence, and address. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Slovakia. It gives English-language readers another route into how poetry travels: not as a tidy report from elsewhere, but as a living encounter with local weather, historical pressure, and the privacy of a voice.

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