The Well at Morning by Bohuslav Reynek
Springtide A chaffinch in a tree of cherry sings merrily spring's introit. Its blazing bobble dwells in leaves, alive, and swells in scarlet. The flowers are flares of white. The chaffinch has gone quiet and turned sky-gazer. My eyes close on the day: an orb revolves in grey and red and azure. Poet and artist Bohuslav Reynek spent most of his life in the relative obscurity of the Czech-Moravian Highlands; although he suffered at the hands of the Communist regime, he cannot be numbered among the dissident poets of Eastern Europe who won acclaim for their political poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. Rather, Reynek belongs to an older pastoral-devotional tradition a kindred spirit to the likes of English-language poets Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and Edward Thomas. The first book of Reynek's poetry to be published in English, The Well at Morning presents a selection of poems from across his life and is illustrated with twenty-five of his own color etchings. Also featuring three essays by leading scholars that place Reynek's life and work alongside those of his better-known peers, this book presents a noted Czech artist to the wider world, reshaping and amplifying our understanding of modern European poetry.-
The Cremator
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Saturnin
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Rambling On
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Ear
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The Pied Piper
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Of Mice and Mooshaber
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Rusalka
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Behind the Lines
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Shadow of the Holly-Fern
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Crossroads of Imagination
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The Devil's Own Luck
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We Were a Handful
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Unsound Siblings
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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
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Writing Underground
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Summer of Caprice
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The Lesser Histories
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Tales of the Prague Ghetto
Bohuslav Reynek (1892 1971) was an influential twentieth-century Czech poet and artist. Justin Quinn is an Irish poet, critic, and translator who has lived in Prague since 1992. He works at the University of West Bohemia and is the author of several studies of twentieth-century poetry, most recently Between Two Fires: Transnationalism and Cold War Poetry.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9788024634258 |
| ISBN 10 | 8024634252 |
| Title | The Well at Morning |
| Author | Bohuslav Reynek |
| Series | Modern Czech Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic |
| Year published | 2018-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 90 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |