The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert

This is the best translated and largest edition of poetry by the Czechs' only Nobel Prize–winning writer, Jaroslav Seifert (he won the prize in 1984 and died in 1986). The poetry is surprising in its simplicity, sensual, thoughtful, moving and comic in turns. Author Milan Kundera has called this collection “the tangible expression of the nation’s genius.” The Nobel Committee stated that Seifert's poetry "provides a liberating image of the indomitable spirit and versatility of man. . . . He conjures up another world than that of tyranny and desolation — a world that exists both here and now . . . one that exists in our dreams and our will and our art." Seifert was the great poet of Prague, of love, of the senses. His work was unpretentious, lyrical yet irreverent, earthy, charming. Seifert .......