The SELECTED POETRY OF JAROSLAV SEIFERT
This selected volume gathers Seifert’s lyrical poetry and weaves Prague’s streets, ordinary life, memory, and the flow of time into delicate metaphor and sound. It meets political oppression and historical hardship with a gentle gaze, expressing universal poetry around human dignity and freedom.
Work Information
Urban memory and quiet lyricism resonate with understated strength.
A representative selected-poems volume that creates a wide world through concise language grounded in love of Prague and historical awareness.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Scribner Paper Fiction
- Published
- 1987-11-30
- Language
- 英語
- ISBN-13
- 9780020707608
- ISBN-10
- 0020707606
- Price
- 25299 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction
A lyrical anthology of poetry by the 1984 Nobel Prize winner presents English translations of poems distinguished by their luminous clarity, directness, unpretentious simplicity, and irony and includes selected passages from Seifert's memoirs
Reviews
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Excelent.
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I THOUGHT SLICED BREAD WAS GOOD, BUT WITH THESE POEMS, EVEN STORE BOUGHT BREAD IS TRANSFORMED INTO AN EXPERIENCE
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I was very pleased with this book.