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
fifties and sixties, poems written before the Soviet invasion of
Czechoslovakia: first published in English in his Penguin Selected
Poems (1967) and in Bloodaxe's The Fly (1987), with some additional
poems. After are translations of his later poetry, all written
after 1968, including not only those from his two Bloodaxe
editions, On the Contrary (1984) and Supposed to Fly (1996), but
also the entire texts of two late collections published by Faber,
Vanishing Lung Syndrome (1990) and The Rampage (1997). With
additional translations by David Young, Dana Habova, Rebekah Bloyd
and Miroslav Holub. 'A laying bare of things, not so much the skull
beneath the skin, more the brain beneath the skull; the shape of
relationships, politics, history; the rhythms of affections and
disaffection; the ebb and flow of faith, hope, violence, art' -
Seamus Heaney 'Miroslav Holub is one of the half dozen most
important poets writing anywhere' - Ted Hughes 'One of the sanest
voices of our time' - A. Alvarez 'He is a magnificent, astringent
genius and this volume sings with an oblique and cutting candour, a
tubular coolness we must praise again and again' - Tom Paulin
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