Worm-Eaten Time by Pavel Srut and translated by Deborah Garfinkle

This is poetry from Czech Republic.

Worm-Eaten Time by Pavel Srut translated by Deborah Garfinkle is published by Phoneme Media. This is a Book originally written in Czech. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781939419613E12.

Worm-Eaten Time, by Pavel Srut, is a Czech poetry collection from Czech Republic, translated from Czech by Deborah Garfinkle, published by Phoneme Media in 2016. It is a Czech collection by Pavel Šrut, translated by Deborah Garfinkle, that makes time feel gnawed, damaged, and weirdly alive. The title is the pleasure here: decay becomes not only an ending, but a texture through which lyric memory can still move. 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.

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