The Swing in the Middle of Chaos: Selected Poems

by Sylva Fischerová

Sylva Fischerov is one of the most formidable Czech poets of her generation. A distinguished classicist who teaches at Charles University in Prague, she writes poetry with a vivid imagination as well as historical reach, and was first published in English as a young poet by Bloodaxe in 1990. Her poetry moves in and out of historical events, with an understanding and loving eye on our frailties as well as our corruptive acts, against the backdrop...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852248599
• ISBN13: 9781852248598
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"