(P/B) THE RAMPAGE

Παρουσίαση

Far from showing signs of having mellowed with age in the last years of his life, Miroslav Holub gave us, in The Rampage , a collection of poems of startling visionary intensity. The wit, the irony, the formal tightness and the imagistic memorability of his earlier work are all still very much in evidence, but here they are allied to a view of the world that owes as much to the nightmare paintings of Bosch and Breughel as to the findings of modern science, in which Dr Holub himself was an internationally recognised expert. The results, available to us thanks to unusually sympathetic translations, done in consultation with the author, are hair-raisingly immediate in their impact. This was a fitting addition to an already varied and significant output. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

1 THE WALL
The Wall in the Corner by the Stairs,
Home,
Love, as They Say,
Duties of One Who Left,
Whale Songs,
My Mother Learns Spanish,
Anatomy of January,
Anatomy of September,
Anatomy of November,
The End of the Week,
The Day of the Pollyanna,
2 FREEDOM
Freedom,
Scene with Fiddlers,
At Last,
The Moth,
Crowd-Walkers,
The Earth Is Shrinking,
While Fleeing,
The Journey,
Not-so-brief Reflection on the Edict,
The Goddess of Victory,
3 THE PIED PIPERS
The Pied Pipers,
Aloof,
A Moravian Castle,
Pompeii,
The British Museum,
The Ten Commandments,
Literary Bash,
The Autumn Orchard,
Universe of the Mouse,
4 MASTERPIECE
Masterpiece,
Ganesha,
The Earliest Angels,
Resurrecting,
Anything about God,
The Statue of the Master,
The Teaching of the Master,
Elementary School Field Trip to the Dinosaur
Exhibit,
The Darkness,
The Silence,
5 THE RAMPAGE
The Rampage,
Head-Smashed-In,
The Slaughterhouse,
Anatomy of July,
Anatomy of December,
Anencephaly,
Metaphysics,
Of Course,
Intensive Care Unit,
The Birth of Sisyphus