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[biblioklept]

Vítězslav Nezval's Woman in the Plural (Book acquired, sometime last week)

Vítězslav Nezval’s Woman in the Plural (Book acquired, sometime last week)

Woman in the Plural is a newly-translated collection of poems and plays by Vítězslav Nezval. The new translation is by Ka (the volume also features art by Karel Teige). Here’s a taste: And here’s publisher Twisted Spoon’s blurb: n the summer of 1935, Vítězslav Nezval, already one of the most celebrated Czech poets of his generation, embarked on a period of manic creativity that would result in…

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Owl Man

by Vítězslav Nezval

The owl man bathing in his own knee That forms a trough Hides beneath his long beard Flowing Like a stony creek Over his belly A black-haired youth Striving To escape his tyrannical embrace And holding in his left arm Elbow severed A cloud dog Lunging Into a deep pit

This black-haired youth Who is actually The owl man’s Athletic shoulder Is a plastic representation Of the relationship between father and son Who Inseparably bound By an ardent embrace Painfully tear apart Their common chimerical body In a lacerated landscape At the foot Of slate cliffs overgrown with horsetail Eroded By a prehistoric waterfall run dry

Poetry and decalcomania by V. Nezval from The Absolute Gravedigger, translated from the Czech by Stephan Delbos & Tereza Novická, published by Twisted Spoon Press in September 2016. The decalcomonia image is titled “Owl Man,” 1 of 6 included by Nezval in the volume as examples of his “interpretive delirium.” All rights reserved.

[thisishenrycore]

Over at Body, Stephan Delbos writes about John Berryman, Recovery, and #Henrycore. 

[bodyliterature-blog]

Speaking about Count Harry Kessler (1868—1937), an Anglo-German count, writer, modern art patron, diplomat and man-about-town, the poet W.H. Auden remarked that he was "probably the most cosmopolitan man who ever lived."

- Stephan Delbos on the diaries of Count Harry Kessler - http://bit.ly/MCcIk5