Stomach of the soul by Sylva Fischerová and translated by A, the author with Stuart Friebert

This is poetry from Czech Republic.

Stomach of the soul by Sylva Fischerová translated by A, the author with Stuart Friebert is published by Calypso Editions. This is a Book originally written in Czech. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780988790346E12.

Stomach of the soul, by Sylva Fischerová, is a Czech poetry collection from Czech Republic, translated from Czech by A, the author with Stuart Friebert, published by Calypso Editions in 2014. It is a Czech collection by Sylva Fischerová, translated with Stuart Friebert, that joins metaphysical hunger to bodily intelligence. The phrase is wonderfully odd, because it refuses to let soul float away from appetite, digestion, pain, and the material facts of being alive. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.

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.