Paper Shoes Carnegie Mellon Poetry in Translation by Pavel Srut and translated by Ema Katrovas

This is poetry from Czech Republic.

Paper Shoes Carnegie Mellon Poetry in Translation by Pavel Srut translated by Ema Katrovas is published by Carnegie Mellon. This is a Book originally written in Czech. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780887485008E12.

Paper Shoes Carnegie Mellon Poetry in Translation, translated from the Czech by Ema Katrovas, brings Pavel Srut’s Czech-language work into English through Carnegie Mellon. Published in 2009, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Šrut’s poems, at least by title and placement, seem interested in fragility, travel, and the odd tenderness of objects that should not survive much weather. A useful way into the book is to listen for what the translation makes possible: not a perfect replacement of the original, but a new body of sound. The poems carry Czech Republic into English without becoming a cultural brochure. They ask for attention, and they reward the reader who lets uncertainty remain useful.

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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