Poems Before & After: Collected English Translations

by Miroslav Holub

Miroslav Holub was the Czech Republic's most important poet, and also one of her leading immunologists. His fantastical and witty poems give a scientist's bemused view of human folly and other life on the planet. Mixing myth, history and folktale with science and philosophy, his plainly written, sceptical poems are surreal mini-dramas often pivoting on paradoxes. Poems Before & After covers thirty years of his poetry. Before are his poems from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852247479
• ISBN13: 9781852247478
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.5"