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.
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