Travis Jeppesen
A speculative journey across a decade that found the exile
returning home to a place that had changed beyond measure
Book Description
Musician, artist and poet, Pavel Z. was one of the leading
figures of the Czech underground that operated outside the official culture
imposed by the former communist regime. The trial that sent him and several
others associated with the experimental rock group the Plastic People of
the Universe to prison for their activities gave rise to the human rights
declaration Charter 77. Later exiled, Pavel Z. first lived in Sweden and
then in New York City, eventually resettling in Prague in the mid-1990s.
Time Is a Mid-Night Scream is his poetic testimony of this period, a time
of transformation for both himself and his city.