Elegie =: Elegies (Czech Edition) Unknown - 1980

SVU Press, 1980-01-01. Good. 0936570016 Unmarked text. Some wear. Good reading copy. Ex-library: stickers, stamps etc.

Prague, Czech Republic: SVU Press, 1980. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Prague, Czech Republic: SVU Press, 1980. Softcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 111 pages. Retrospective collection of poems. The single best introduction to the poetry of Jiri Orten. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a Bilingual Softcover Edition only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Jiri Orten's "Elegie Elegies" in definitive translations by Lyn Coffin, his most dedicated translator in English. Poetry that is necessary and sublime. The original poems in Czech are presented on the left-hand side and the English translations en face. The collection is presented in two sequences: The first part is a selection of lyrical poems while the second consists of the relentless "Elegies" Suite, nine Numbered Poems ("Elegie Number One" and so on) that match - if not surpass - Rainer Maria… Leer más