In Search of Beauty

by Smith, James Sutherland; Bajanek, Jan; Hudik, Pavol; Bajanek, Jan

• ISBN13: 9780865165717
• ISBN10: 0865165718
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: Bolchazy Carducci Pub

Summary

The anthology is a selection from contemporary Slovak poetry that joins the fundamentals of Slovak culture with a European and World Context-available in English translation for the first time.

Table of Contents

A Nation of Poets: The Calling of the Word	v
A Unity in Diversity	vii
Jan Bajanek	1	(5)
Spring Winds	1	(1)
Heart Your Reason	1	(2)
The Pictures on the Wall Hang On Still	3	(1)
Voiceless Tongues	4	(1)
Glittering Lights of the Sixties	5	(1)
Dezider Banga	6	(3)
Palm Reading	6	(1)
I desired a drop of your love today	7	(1)
Wanderers	7	(1)
Gypsies Have A Soul	8	(1)
Rudolf Cizmarik	9	(4)
The Best Recipe for Baking Bread	9	(1)
Washing the Water	9	(1)
Shall We Meet, Friends?	10	(1)
He Desired Her as Tenderness	11	(2)
Milan Ferko	13	(4)
Prophecy	13	(1)
Parting	14	(1)
A Warning	14	(1)
Jaglica	15	(1)
To Be	16	(1)
Ludovit Fuchs	17	(3)
Sonnet For Two	17	(1)
In a Forbidden Time	17	(1)
Rondel on Love and Hate	18	(1)
From the Depths of the Unconscious	19	(1)
Igor Gallo	20	(4)
Dream and Morning	20	(1)
The Center of the Earth	20	(1)
We Won't Die	21	(1)
Prayer	22	(1)
Treacherous Jano from Grinzing	22	(1)
A Road	23	(1)
Marian Grupac	24	(3)
Compelling Bells	24	(1)
Chain(Sider)ing	25	(1)
Nightcracker in Tenebris	26	(1)
Daniela Hivesova-Silanova	27	(2)
Romano Nilaj / Gypsy Summer	27	(1)
America	27	(2)
Gustav Hupka	29	(3)
After Years	29	(1)
Rising	30	(1)
The Surge	30	(1)
A Poem is a Passionate Prayer	31	(1)
What Times without God Do We Live In?	31	(1)
Michal Chuda	32	(5)
A Quarto	32	(1)
Starry Moment	32	(1)
Coming Home	33	(1)
Slovak Word	34	(1)
We Are	35	(1)
I Saw Beauty Hidden in the Word	36	(1)
Pavol Janik	37	(6)
Astonishment	37	(1)
Family Study	37	(2)
The Theater of Life	39	(1)
Kosovo	40	(1)
New York	40	(2)
You Can Tell an Angel From His Feathers	42	(1)
Teofil Klas	43	(4)
I Have a Warm Heart	43	(1)
Only the Deep	44	(1)
Conjured in a Mountain of Glass	45	(1)
You Kept Saying I was Asleep	46	(1)
Vojtech Kondrot	47	(5)
Change	47	(1)
The Country	47	(1)
My Island of Oats	48	(1)
Mathematics	49	(1)
A Tale of Three Groats	50	(1)
Private Prayer	51	(1)
Marian Kovacik	52	(5)
Sonnet on the Country of My Birth	52	(1)
The Sun Over Bratislava	52	(2)
Little Spring	54	(1)
The Saint Bernard	54	(3)
Eva Kovacova	57	(3)
Powder Puff	57	(1)
A Little Happiness	58	(1)
Finding a Suitable Place	59	(1)
Vlastimil Kovalcik	60	(4)
Of What	60	(1)
Medallion	61	(1)
Discovery	61	(1)
The Red Monastery, That is the Bread of the Spirit	62	(2)
Milan Kraus	64	(4)
Sleepwalker	64	(1)
The Poet is only Singing, Too	65	(1)
You are a Jug	66	(1)
Waste	66	(1)
Jug	66	(1)
Day by Day	67	(1)
Teodor Krizka	68	(3)
There are People	68	(1)
A Bouquet	68	(3)
Milan Lechan	71	(2)
Cliche	71	(1)
Therapy	71	(1)
Advertising Agency	72	(1)
Evening by the Samovar	72	(1)
Jan Majernik	73	(5)
In every woman I seek a little of you	73	(1)
Truth	73	(2)
In life in a moment it can happen	74	(1)
I wanted This in Prose	75	(2)
If on the Basis of Sober Consideration	77	(1)
Vojtech Mihalik	78	(5)
Awakening	78	(1)
Orphans of Parents Still Alive	79	(1)
The Bad Moments of Farewells	80	(1)
On Demand	80	(1)
Sometimes I dream	81	(1)
Cactus	81	(1)
The Necessity of Sorrow	82	(1)
Jozef Mihalkovic	83	(6)
Hearth	83	(2)
To Don Quixote	85	(1)
On the Expulsion from Paradise	86	(1)
Between Strength and Strength	87	(1)
A Market Contribution	88	(1)
Stefan Moravcik	89	(6)
Fingers in My Heart	89	(1)
Cursed by Laughter	89	(1)
In the Beginning was the Word	90	(1)
The Land Beneath the Tatras	91	(1)
Our Queen Walks Barefoot	92	(1)
Cheese Market	93	(1)
With a Pure Thirst	94	(1)
Jan Motulko	95	(2)
Questions	95	(1)
Confession	95	(2)
Ondrej Nagaj	97	(3)
Humanness	97	(1)
Suddenly They've Sat to One Side	97	(1)
School Sonnet	98	(2)
Every day one can't	99	(1)
Jan Navratil	100	(2)
Love by Coca-Cola	100	(1)
Firefly	101	(1)
The Nightingale's Work	101	(1)
Miroslav Pius	102	(5)
Rules of the Game	102	(1)
Coming to you Unexpectedly	102	(1)
Slovaks	103	(2)
My Mother's Speech	105	(2)
Dana Podracka	107	(5)
In Homage to a Deed	107	(1)
On the Return Journey	107	(1)
Gesture of Passion	108	(1)
Gesture	108	(1)
A Trace of Damp	109	(1)
I Can See You Through the Narrow Crevice of the Plants	109	(3)
Vladimir Reisel	112	(5)
Poet	112	(1)
A Good Man	112	(1)
Sonnet on a Woman	113	(1)
A Dream	114	(1)
You are Close	114	(1)
Home	115	(1)
About Love	115	(1)
Poetry	116	(1)
Jaroslav Reznik	117	(4)
Enduring	117	(1)
The Absolute	118	(1)
To Poetry	119	(1)
Decision	120	(1)
Zlata Solivajsova	121	(2)
Wild Geese	121	(1)
Ballad of a Slovak Wanderer	121	(2)
Pavol Stanislav	123	(5)
The Past	123	(1)
Old Men	124	(1)
The Fateful One	124	(1)
The Country of Saints Cyril and Methodius	125	(1)
Blessed Things	126	(2)
Vincent Sikula	128	(2)
Table	128	(1)
In Dubova	128	(1)
Wine Midges	129	(1)
Ctibor Stitnicky	130	(4)
Why Pretend?	130	(1)
I Sit at Wine	131	(1)
A Song About Young Wine and the First Yellow Leaves	132	(2)
Frantisek Straus	134	(2)
Body Changes	134	(1)
At a Meeting	135	(1)
Heart	135	(1)
Jan Svantner	136	(4)
Beauty and Children	136	(1)
A Word	137	(1)
Poetry	138	(1)
My Face Stony	138	(1)
Stiavnica Reflection	139	(1)
Viliam Turcany	140	(9)
If a Quiet Boy	140	(1)
Nothing New...	140	(1)
A Song of Pleading	141	(1)
At Wine	142	(1)
The Mission of the Wandering Minstrel	142	(1)
Dante's Birthplace	143	(1)
He Who Creates Song	144	(1)
Into a Slavic Memorial	144	(1)
Song	145	(1)
Slovakia Today	145	(2)
Sonnet About Relationships	147	(1)
From a Grammar of Poetry	148	(1)
Svetloslav Veigl	149	(2)
The Soul in the Palm of a Hand	149	(1)
Poet	149	(1)
You Came	150	(1)
Joy	150	(1)
Heart	150	(1)
I Have a Silvered Head	151