The Early Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert

by Seifert, Jaroslav; Loewy, Dana

• ISBN13: 9780810113848
• ISBN10: 0810113848
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

Summary

Despite being awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1984, much of Czech poet Jaroslav Seifert's work has yet to be translated into English. Publication of Early Poetry will earn for Seifert well-deserved literary recognition. Seifert's poetry is strongly situated within the Czech literary tradition of Poetism, which evolved into a playful, lighthearted refuge from world history while maintaining an edge of social consciousness.

Table of Contents

Translator's Notes and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Foreword	p. 3
Introductory Poem	p. 4
Monologue of the Handless Soldier	p. 6
December 1920	p. 9
Prayer on the Sidewalk	p. 12
Language of the Crowd	p. 15
Children from the Suburb	p. 17
At the War Cemetery	p. 19
Revolution	p. 21
Good Tidings	p. 24
The End of War	p. 26
A Chanted Prayer	p. 28
Evening on the Porch	p. 29
City of Sin	p. 35
The Screen at the Cinema	p. 36
In the Garden Gethsemane	p. 38
City in Tears	p. 39
The Creation of the World	p. 41
In a Small Suburban Street	p. 43
A Poem Full of Courage and Faith	p. 45
Poor	p. 48
The Humblest of Poems	p. 50
Electric Lyre	p. 53
Poem of Spring	p. 55
Amorous Stanzas	p. 56
Paris	p. 58
Hour of Peace	p. 61
Lullaby	p. 64
New Year's Poem	p. 66
A Song about Girls	p. 69
Glorious Day	p. 70
Verses in Remembrance of the Revolution	p. 73
Verses about Love, Murder, and the Gallows	p. 75
A Sailor	p. 85
A Black Man	p. 89
The Little Ring	p. 90
All the Beauties of the World	p. 91
Afterword	p. 93
Guillaume Apollinaire	p. 97
Fiery fruit	p. 98
Honeymoon	p. 103
departure of a ship	p. 104
Marseille	p. 105
harbor	p. 106
sea	p. 107
Marble town	p. 108
Hotel "Cote d'Azur"	p. 109
Park	p. 110
My Italy	p. 111
Nightlights	p. 112
Verses about two who drowned	p. 113
Evening at the cafe	p. 117
Eccentric	p. 119
All perfumes	p. 121
mirror square	p. 122
Miss Gada-Nigi	p. 123
Circus	p. 124
King Herod	p. 125
Ice cream poetry	p. 126
Wisdom	p. 127
Lightbulb	p. 128
beauty	p. 129
Rebus	p. 130
Discoveries	p. 131
Street	p. 132
Eyes	p. 133
Fan	p. 134
Abacus	p. 135
Poet	p. 136
New York	p. 137
Napoleon	p. 138
Consolation	p. 139
Love	p. 140
Philosophy	p. 141
Words on magnet	p. 142
!!Hello!!	p. 144
The thief and the clock	p. 146
with a coquettish lady	p. 147
Concert cafe	p. 148
Lawn-tennis	p. 150
Cigarette smoke	p. 151
Fever	p. 153
Fate	p. 154
Rue de la Paix	p. 155
Graveyard in Genoa	p. 156
Silken handkerchief	p. 157
To be a fisherman	p. 158
Moon on Wings	p. 163
The Hourglass	p. 164
Verses	p. 166
A Song about Death	p. 167
Ancient Wisdom	p. 168
14th of July	p. 169
Girlfriends	p. 170
Paravent	p. 172
Yellow, Blue, Red	p. 173
Panorama	p. 174
Giant Mountains	p. 175
Bread and Roses	p. 179
Ballad	p. 180
Old Battlefield	p. 182
A Ballad from the Champagne	p. 184
The Parting Kiss	p. 186
An Apple Tree with Cobweb Strings	p. 188
Three Bitter Seeds	p. 190
Moscow	p. 195
A Song about Moscow	p. 196
At Our Lady of Iberia	p. 197
Lenin's City	p. 199
Lenin	p. 200
Afterword	p. 203
Notes	p. 207
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