A Poet’s Return: Pavel Šrut’s Worm-Eaten Light
"For 10 years after Worm-Eaten Light was banned, Pavel couldn’t write poetry even if he’d wanted to because it had lost its meaning in new reality of normalization. Through… More
On Translating Pavel Srut
The emergence of these poems after a decade of silence attests to the endurance of the imagination and Pavel’s liberation from his self-imposed exile in the metaphorical ghetto. They… More
Worm-Eaten Time: Poems from a Life under Normalization
The same language, only/the words have changed. Instead of the bee/that got caught in your hair last summer,/you comb out the matted, shriveled tangle//With its unintelligible message. More