The Swing In The Middle Of Chaos Selected Poems by Sylva Fischerová and translated by Stuart Friebert

This is poetry from Czech Republic.

The Swing In The Middle Of Chaos Selected Poems by Sylva Fischerová translated by Stuart Friebert is published by Bloodaxe Books. This is a Selected originally written in Czech. This was published in 2010.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781852248598E12.

The Swing In The Middle Of Chaos Selected Poems, translated from the Czech by Stuart Friebert, brings Sylva Fischerová’s Czech-language work into English through Bloodaxe Books. Published in 2010, it is best approached as selected poems of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Fischerová’s selected poems sound as though intellect, myth, and private bewilderment have all been placed on the same moving surface. I would not read this as a puzzle with a hidden answer. Read it for pressure, for texture, for the place where a line suddenly becomes stranger than its apparent subject. The book matters because it keeps the translated poem alive as encounter, not summary, and because Czech Republic enters the shelf through music rather than report.

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