- Paperback: 276 pages
- Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd (1 Aug 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1852241225
- ISBN-13: 978-1852241223
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.8 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 537,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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excellent overview,
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This review is from: Poems Before and After: Collected English Translations (Paperback)
This is a really excellent overview of Holub's poetry. I bought my copy around ten years ago, and it still feels like a mainstay of my collection.This isn't, I don't suppose, a particularly illuminating review. I'm not about to try to describe Holub's work. What I will say is this.... if you're a fan, or want to learn more about him, then this is definatley the collection to buy. It's one of those few poetry books that you feel you've actually got a bargain with. It feels substantial.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Too much of a great thing.,
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This review is from: Poems Before and After: Collected English Translations (Hardcover)
Miroslav Holub, Poems Before and After (Bloodaxe Books, 1990)
Surrealism is rather like Death by Chocolate. It's great in small doses, but if you get too much at once, you're going to get sick. Poems Before and After, which is for all intents and purposes the Collected Translations up to 1990, is verging on the too much. Miroslav Holub is a brilliant writer, one of the same generation of Eastern European writers that produced poetic giants Charles Simic and Vladimir Holan. And Holub's best work easily stands with Return to a Place Lit by a Glass of Milk or A Night with Hamlet (see, e.g., Vanishing Lung Syndrome). And there's no denying that the work here is, for the most part, fantastic. Absolutely lovely stuff. But there's so much of it, and Holub's work is so dense, that the reader is best advised to read this book over a space of months, dipping into it now and again before retreating and mulling over what he's read. This is one for your permanent collection; you'll be going back to it over the space of years. However, if you're a Holub newbie, as most folks are, you're probably best advised to start with one of the single collections and work your way up to this one. *** ½ |
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