Prague with fingers of rain by Vítězslav Nezval and translated by Ewald Osers

This is poetry from Czech Republic.

Prague with fingers of rain by Vítězslav Nezval translated by Ewald Osers is published by Bloodaxe Books. This is a Book originally written in Czech. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781852248161E12.

Prague with fingers of rain, translated from the Czech by Ewald Osers, brings Vítězslav Nezval’s Czech-language work into English through Bloodaxe Books. Published in 2009, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Nezval’s Prague is not merely a city setting. It becomes weather, touch, architecture, and dream all at once. I would begin with the poem itself: the image that refuses to behave, the phrase that gives the page a new temperature, the pressure of voice moving from one language into another. Good translated poetry does not only deliver information about Czech Republic. It changes the reader’s sense of what English can hold, which makes this volume both a literary record and a readerly invitation.

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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