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\nHumide comme une f\u00e9e<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Humide comme une f\u00e9e <\/i>is a selection of author\u2019s poems from twelve collections in French translation of Valery Dvoinikov. Published in Les Editions Novelas, Brussels, 2025. http:\/\/www.novelasasbl.eu<\/a> . <\/div>\n
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Third collection of selected poems in author\u2019s translation to Russian. Translation editor Alexandr Karpenko. Dual edition: ridero.ru<\/a> (2024) and Drukarskij dvir Olega Fedorova, Kiev 2025, second edition 2026. \u041aiev edition accompanied by four  color collages by author and hard cover.<\/p>\n

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P\u0159\u00edb\u011bhy zpoza oce\u00e1nu<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Book of philosophical stories depicting a young person looking for the meaning of life. Prague: Togga 2024.<\/p>\n

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Czech edition of the originally bilingual book Where Everyone Leave Never to Return<\/i> with color collages. Prague: Togga 2024.<\/p>\n

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Kde v\u0161ichni odch\u00e1zej\u00ed a u\u017e se nevrac\u00ed \/ Where Everyone Leaves Never to Return<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Where Everyone Leaves, Never to Return is a captivating collection of poems in which Czech poet Bronislava Volkov\u00e1, a jongleur of contemporary verse, masterfully combines voice and nuance as she saunters through love, loss, mortality, and eternal life. With a sharp wit, her verses render playful catechisms of why \u201ca loving God can make an unloving man \u201c but they also dive deep into self-discovery, achieving, even if just for an instant, the hard-earned right to a \u201cjoyous spirit of inner being.\u201c Her work is a testament to her life lived in full–a diverse and all-encompassing experience. Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 a bilingual poet, semiotician, translator, collagist, essayist and Professor Emerita of Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, where she was a Director of the Czech Program at the Slavic Department for thirty years. She is a member of Czech and American PEN Club. She went into exile in 1974, taught at the Universities of Cologne and Marburg and subsequently at Harvard and University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She returned into her native coutry in 2018 and currently lives in Prague.<\/p>\n

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Kde v\u0161ichni odch\u00e1zej\u00ed a u\u017e se nevrac\u00ed \/ Where Everyone Leaves Never to Return<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Washington: Plamen Press, USA, 2023, bilingual edition<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.plamenpress.com\/where-everyone-leaves-never-to-return\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.academicstudiespress.com\/9781951508272\/where-everyone-leaves-never-to-return\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Also in Explorer Editions, 2023 with 4 color collages by author.<\/p>\n

Twelfth, bilingual collection of original poetry.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>(I Look into the Waters)<\/strong> Selection from eleven books of poetry by the author. Translation and introductioon by V\u011bra Hoffmannov\u00e1. Published by Argenta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2020. The publication of this book was supported by a grant of Indiana University, Bloomington.<\/p>\n

The book can be obtained at: info@editorialargenta.com, <\/a><\/u>www.editorialargenta.com<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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<\/u><\/u>Mirando las aguas
\n<\/em><\/strong>Contiene selecci\u00f3n de once libros de poes\u00eda de la autora. Traducci\u00f3n al espa\u00f1ol y pr\u00f3logo de V\u011bra Hoffmannov\u00e1. Publicado en Editorial Argenta, Buenos, Aires, Argentina, 2020 con el apoyo de la beca para profesores em\u00e9ritos de la Universidad de Indiana, Bloomington.<\/p>\n

El libro le brinda al lector sorprendentes virajes en cada poes\u00eda. Sus versos palpitan  lentamente al ritmo del coraz\u00f3n humano. Se podr\u00eda decir que se asemejan a la m\u00fasica, en el sentido de T. S. Eliot, quien dice que \u201cla m\u00fasica es una l\u00ednea vertical ajustada a las palpitaciones del coraz\u00f3n humano\u201d. La poeta B. Volkov\u00e1 ha llegado al l\u00edmite de las situaciones humanas, situaciones que tienden a la trascendencia. Sus versos atesoran la sabidur\u00eda y el colorido de los poetas de la vieja China y tambi\u00e9n el agudo filo de los poetas surrealistas.
\nBohumil Hrabal, Rep\u00fablica Checa<\/p>\n

Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 est\u00e1 considerada en el exilio checo al que pertenezco, como una de las poetas checas m\u00e1s importantes y destacadas de la actualidad. Sus im\u00e1genes, la calidad enso\u00f1adora de su poes\u00eda y el amor hacia la humanidad, expresada en sus versos, crean una voz original. Su \u00faltimo libro muestra la evoluci\u00f3n desde el talento a la maestr\u00eda. 
\nArno\u0161t Lustig, Rep\u00fablica Checa<\/p>\n

Tenemos la suerte de que ha llegado hasta nosotros un nuevo talento que habla con palabras de uso cotidianas. La novedad es m\u00e1s clara cuando \u2013 como en el caso de estas poes\u00edas de una mujer checa \u2013 el talento nos habla desde la lengua, la cultura y la tradici\u00f3n que la mayor\u00eda de nosotros comienza a conocer. La sensibilidad creada a partir de ellas, nos alcanza con una frescura espectacular,  con viveza y originalidad, su tema es la vida que todos nosotros compartimos.
\nW. S.  Merwin, USA<\/p>\n

La poes\u00eda de Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 es el universo del alma. Su plasticidad une lo temporal y lo eterno, lo metaf\u00edsico y lo real, la verdadera vida vivida y sobrevivida. Para que una persona escriba de este modo tiene que tener un talento peculiar. El poeta se debe transformar \u00e9l mismo en una obra de arte. Si abrimos la obra de W. Whitman y luego, de repente, nos volcamos en los versos de Bronislava Volkov\u00e1, entenderemos qu\u00e9 es la poes\u00eda actual. Lo lac\u00f3nico en extremo y la condensaci\u00f3n de la vida, y al mismo tiempo el eufemismo. Densidad del habla y aire entre las estrofas. 
\nAleksandr Karpenko, Rusia<\/p>\n

La poes\u00eda de B. Volkov\u00e1 representa la creaci\u00f3n l\u00edrica m\u00e1s destacada de la poes\u00eda checa del \u00faltimo decenio. La incondicionalidad existencialista se vincula con lo metaf\u00edsico sensorial, la imaginaci\u00f3n con el intelecto, la prolijidad individual con lo lac\u00f3nico y sabio, relacionado con la condici\u00f3n humana \u2013 todo ello crea una importante imposici\u00f3n del individuo sobre el mundo ca\u00f3tico. 
\nKristina Kallert, Alemania 
\nEl libro se puede obtener aqu\u00ed: info@editorialargenta.com, <\/a><\/u>www.editorialargenta.com, <\/a><\/u>cualquier librer\u00eda de Argentina<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>(To Sound Better than Silent)<\/strong> Selection from eleven collections of poetry and new poems in Russian translation of the author. Main editor and introduction: Alexandr Karpenko. Published by Steklograf, Moscow, Russia, 2020. It is the second book of Bronislava Volkov\u00e1’s poetry in Russian. The book also contains a fragment from the author’s essay on exile, some Russian and Ukrainian reviews of her work and interviews with the author from the pen of Viktor Mel’nyk, Oleg Solovej, Igor Ol’\u0161evskij, Alexandr Ratkevi\u010d a Stanislav Ajdinjan.<\/p>\n

The book can be obtained at: : https:\/\/www.labirint.ru\/<\/a>
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N\u00e1vrat\/Heimkehr
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\"\"<\/a>(Return)<\/strong> Bilingual Czech-German edition of a representative selection of poetry in translation from eleven collections. Translated by Ota Filip, Petr Jankovsk\u00fd, Kristina Kallert, Ines Spieker and Vladim\u00edr Vlasat\u00fd and author. Published by Pavel Mervart, \u010cerven\u00fd kostelec, Czech Republic, 2019, 260pp. With two black and white collages by author. The publication was supported by the \u010cesko-n\u011bmeck\u00fd fond budoucnosti (Czech-German Foundation of the Future).<\/p>\n

 <\/em><\/strong>N\u00e1vrat \u2013 Heimkehr <\/em>brings a bilingual Czech-German edition of a representative selection of one of the most important Czech voices of the last decades. Existential exigency is interconnected with sensual metaphysics, imagination with intellect, individual persistence with a laconic knowingness.
\nKristina Kallert<\/p>\n

 <\/em>N\u00e1vrat \u2013 Heimkehr<\/em> bietet in zweisprachiger tschechisch-deutscher Edition einen repr\u00e4sentativen Querschnitt durch das lyrische Lebenswerk einer der markantesten tschechischen Stimmen der letzten Jahrzehnte. Existenzialistische Unbedingtheit verbindet sich mit sinnlicher Metaphysik, Imagination mit Intellekt, individuelle Beharrlichkeit mit wissender Lakonie um die conditio humana \u2013 in allem ein bedeutendes Bekenntnis zur Selbstbehauptung des Individuums \u00fcber eine chaotische Welt hinaus.
\nBronislava Volkov\u00e1 hat den gr\u00f6\u00dften Teil ihres aktiv schaffenden Lebens \u2013 nach einer Lehrt\u00e4tigkeit auch an den Universit\u00e4ten in K\u00f6ln und Marburg \u2013 als Professorin f\u00fcr Bohemistik und Slavistik an der Indiana University, Bloomington, im US-amerikanischen Exil verbracht. Seit den 1980er Jahren, als die Autorin ihre ersten Lyrikb\u00e4nde im M\u00fcnchener Exil-Verlag Poezie mimo Domov (PmD) \/ Poetry Abroad vorzulegen begann, hat sich ihrer Gedichte eine Reihe von \u00dcbersetzern angenommen. Sie alle sind hier vertreten. In Zusammenarbeit mit der Autorin \u00fcbersetzt von Ota Filip, Peter Jankovsk\u00fd, Kristina Kallert, Ines Spieker und Vladim\u00edr Vlasat\u00fd. Herausgegeben mit freundlichen \u00dcnterst\u00fctzung des Deutsch-Tschechichen Zukunftsfonds.
\nKristina Kallert
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\n\u201cPoetry Reading of Czech, German and Sorbian Writers\u201d (organized by Czech and German International PEN club and Society of Friends of Lu\u017eice), Lu\u017eice seminary, Prague 22.10. 2019.
\n\u201cPohle\u010f, jsem bl\u00edzko\u201d, poetry reading on 11. 19. 2019 in Mil\u00ed\u010dova modlitebna, Prague. Introduction by M\u00e1ria Uhrinov\u00e1, esr\u00e1d\u017e accompaniment Elena Kubi\u010dkov\u00e1. Program of the festival Den poezie<\/em>.
\n\u201cVid\u011bt a v\u011bd\u011bt\u201d, Nostic\u016fv pal\u00e1c, Praha, 24.11. 2019, Program of the Festival Den poezie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The book can be ordered at www.kosmas.cz<\/a>, <\/u>www.pavelmervart.cz, <\/a>www.bronislavavolkova.com<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>(Wind on its Knees) <\/strong>Czech-Ukrainian bilingual collection of selected poems translated by Mykola Martynjuk and published in the publishing house Tverdyna, Luck, Ukraine. It is the second collection of selected poems of Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 in Ukraine. The book was presented in the Gallery \u0160\u010digol in Prague on 9th<\/sup> of January, 2020 together with the translator and publisher Mykola Martynjuk under the auspices of the Ukrainian Embassy with the Ukrainian Ambassador Jevhen Perebyjnis present. Similarly as in the case of the previous selection Neprinale\u017enist\u2019 <\/em>(Nonconformity, 2014), a number of reviews has appeared (Igor Ol\u2019\u0161evskij, Igor Farina, Viktor Mel\u2019nyk, Viktor Verby\u010d),
\nThe book can be ordered at: tverdyna@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\u0412\u043e\u043b\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u0411\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0456\u0441\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0430. V\u00edtr na kolenou\/\u0412\u0456\u0442\u0435\u0440 \u043d\u0430 \u043a\u043e\u043b\u0456\u043d\u0430\u0445 : \u0432\u0438\u0431\u0440. \u043f\u043e\u0435\u0437\u0456\u0457 \/ \u0411\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0456\u0441\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0430 \u0412\u043e\u043b\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430 ; \u043f\u0435\u0440. \u0437 \u0447\u0435\u0441\u044c\u043a. \u041c\u0438\u043a\u043e\u043b\u0438 \u041c\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0438\u043d\u044e\u043a\u0430. \u2013 \u041b\u0443\u0446\u044c\u043a : \u041f\u0412\u0414 \u00ab\u0422\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0434\u0438\u043d\u044f\u00bb, 2019, 124 \u0441.<\/p>\n

\u00abV\u00edtr na kolenou\/\u0412\u0456\u0442\u0435\u0440 \u043d\u0430 \u043a\u043e\u043b\u0456\u043d\u0430\u0445\u00bb \u2013 \u0446\u0435 \u0434\u0432\u043e\u043c\u043e\u0432\u043d\u0435 \u0447\u0435\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e-\u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0435 \u0432\u0438\u0434\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044f \u0432\u0438\u0431\u0440\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0437 \u0434\u0435\u043a\u0456\u043b\u044c\u043a\u043e\u0445 \u043b\u0456\u0440\u0438\u0447\u043d\u0438\u0445 \u0437\u0431\u0456\u0440\u043e\u043a \u0456 \u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0445 \u0432\u0456\u0440\u0448\u0456\u0432 \u043e\u0434\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0437 \u0432\u0438\u0434\u0430\u0442\u043d\u0438\u0445 \u0447\u0435\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0445 \u0433\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0441\u0456\u0432 \u043e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043d\u0456\u0445 \u0434\u0435\u0441\u044f\u0442\u0438\u043b\u0456\u0442\u044c. \u0411\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0456\u0441\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0430 \u0412\u043e\u043b\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u0432\u0436\u0435 \u0432\u0456\u0434\u043e\u043c\u0430 \u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e\u043c\u0443 \u0447\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0447\u0435\u0432\u0456 \u0437\u0430 \u043a\u043d\u0438\u0433\u043e\u044e \u00ab\u041d\u0435\u043f\u0440\u0438\u043d\u0430\u043b\u0435\u0436\u043d\u0456\u0441\u0442\u044c\u00bb (2014) \u0443 \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0456 \u0412\u0456\u043a\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0430 \u041c\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0438\u043a\u0430. \u041f\u043e\u0435\u0437\u0456\u0457 \u0411\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0456\u0441\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0438 \u0412\u043e\u043b\u043a\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0457 \u043f\u043e\u0454\u0434\u043d\u0443\u044e\u0442\u044c \u0435\u043a\u0437\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0435\u043d\u0446\u0456\u0439\u043d\u0443 \u0431\u0435\u0437\u0432\u0456\u0434\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434\u043d\u0456\u0441\u0442\u044c \u0437 \u0447\u0443\u0442\u0442\u0454\u0432\u043e\u044e \u043c\u0435\u0442\u0430\u0444\u0456\u0437\u0438\u0447\u043d\u0456\u0441\u0442\u044e, \u0437\u043d\u0430\u043d\u0443 \u043b\u0430\u043a\u043e\u043d\u0456\u0447\u043d\u0456\u0441\u0442\u044c \u0437 \u0456\u043d\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0443\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u044e \u0443\u044f\u0432\u043d\u0456\u0441\u0442\u044e \u0432 \u0430\u043a\u0446\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0456 \u043d\u0430 \u0456\u043d\u0434\u0438\u0432\u0456\u0434\u0443\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0435 \u0441\u043f\u0440\u0438\u0439\u043d\u044f\u0442\u0442\u044f \u0437\u043d\u0430\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044f \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043c\u043e\u0436\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043d\u0430\u0434 \u0445\u0430\u043e\u0442\u0438\u0447\u043d\u0438\u043c \u0441\u0432\u0456\u0442\u043e\u043c.<\/p>\n

\u0417\u043d\u0430\u0447\u043d\u0443 \u0447\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0443 \u0441\u0432\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0442\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0447\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0436\u0438\u0442\u0442\u044f \u0411\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0456\u0441\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0430 \u0412\u043e\u043b\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0430 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043b\u0430 \u0432 \u0430\u043c\u0435\u0440\u0438\u043a\u0430\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0456\u0439 \u0435\u043c\u0456\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0456\u0457, \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0446\u044e\u044e\u0447\u0438 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0444\u0435\u0441\u043e\u0440\u043e\u043c \u0441\u043b\u0430\u0432\u0456\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0438 \u0442\u0430 \u0431\u043e\u0433\u0435\u043c\u0456\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0438 \u0432 \u0406\u043d\u0434\u0456\u0430\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e\u043c\u0443 \u0443\u043d\u0456\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0438\u0442\u0435\u0442\u0456 \u0432 \u0411\u043b\u0443\u043c\u0456\u043d\u0491\u0442\u043e\u043d\u0456. \u0412\u043e\u043d\u0430 \u043f\u0438\u0448\u0435 \u0447\u0435\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e\u044e \u0439 \u0430\u043d\u0433\u043b\u0456\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e\u044e, \u0456 \u0431\u0443\u043b\u0430 \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0430 \u043d\u0430 \u043d\u0438\u0437\u043a\u0443 \u0456\u043d\u0448\u0438\u0445 \u043c\u043e\u0432. \u041a\u0440\u0456\u043c \u043f\u043e\u0435\u0437\u0456\u0457 \u0442\u0430 \u043a\u043e\u043b\u0430\u0436\u0443, \u0437\u0430\u0439\u043c\u0430\u0454\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f \u0441\u0435\u043c\u0456\u043e\u0442\u0438\u043a\u043e\u044e \u0456 \u0454 \u0430\u0432\u0442\u043e\u0440\u043a\u043e\u044e \u043a\u043d\u0438\u0433 \u0456 \u0441\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0435\u0439 \u0437 \u0442\u0438\u043f\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0456\u0457 \u0435\u043c\u043e\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043d\u0438\u0445 \u0437\u043d\u0430\u0447\u0435\u043d\u044c \u0456 \u0437\u043d\u0430\u043a\u0456\u0432, \u0430\u043d\u0430\u043b\u0456\u0437\u0443 \u043f\u043e\u0435\u0442\u0438\u0447\u043d\u043e\u0457 \u043c\u043e\u0432\u0438, \u0491\u0435\u043d\u0434\u0435\u0440\u0443, \u0435\u043c\u0456\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0456\u0457 \u0442\u043e\u0449\u043e.<\/p>\n

Z druhej strany du\u0161e<\/em> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"z-druhej-strany-cover\"<\/a>(From the Other Side of the Soul)<\/strong>. <\/span>This selection from the poetry of Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 demonstrates the potential of the word, able to be hard, clear and sharp like granite, or gentle, soft and all-embracing like water.<\/p>\n

The first thing that captivates me in this author\u2019s work is the playfulness of form and language and ease with which she ties the individual metaphors into a poetic whole. The resulting images represent a gallery of artistic collages, still lifes, often with surrealist, even metaphysical character. Sometimes the metaphysical content of the verses breathes on the reader with such a depth that it reminds us that the author is also a Reiki Master. The poems from the older, exile period are mildly nostalgic, sometimes melancholic, honoring her far-away homeland by means of natural-panoramic metaphors. In her later period, they are rather reflexive and subtly mock and ironize various spheres of life and relationship, which directly touch each one of us. Yet ultimately one feels a breeze of hope in her poems. Who seeks will find and be found.
\nOndrej Kalam\u00e1r
\nPublishing: Sklan\u00e1 ru\u017ea, Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica, 2016, 115 pp.
\nTranslation into Slovak: Ondrej Kalam\u00e1r
\nhttp:\/\/www.martinus.sk\/knihy\/vydavatelstvo\/Skalna-ruza
\nAvailable here<\/a><\/p>\n

B\u00fdt stromem, kter\u00fd zp\u00edv\u00e1 \/ <\/em><\/strong>Being<\/em> a Tree That Sings<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"BytNew, eleventh book of metaphysical and existential poetry by the Czech American poet Bronislava Volkov\u00e1, currently living between Prague, Czech Republic and Bloomington, IN. She is an author of more than thirty books of poetry, translations, as well as scholarly analyses and her work has been translated into eleven languages. She holds a number of international literary-cultural awards and is a member of both Czech and American PEN club. She is a Professor Emerita of Indiana University and also a successful collage artist, who exhibits her works on both sides of the Atlantic. Volkov\u00e1 is an emotive and spiritual poet, who moves the reader toward a deeper experience of life. One of the topics of current book is also the unique animal world. A specific feature of her poetry is its consistently bilingual form and original metaphorisation. The book comes with five color collages by the author. With cover collage \u201cThe Trials of Angels\u201d. More at www.bronislavavolkova.com<,
\nPublisher:<\/a> Pavel Mervart, \u010cerven\u00fd Kostelec, Czech Republic, 2016, 142 pp
\nAvailable here: www.kosmas.cz<\/a>, www.pavelmervart.cz<\/a>, www.bronislavavolkova.com<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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\u0160epot vselennoj<\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"sepot2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(Whisper of the Universe) <\/strong><\/span>This is a selection of Bronislava Volkova’ s poetry in Russian translation by author with Oleg Malevi\u010d, Irina  Sileckaja and Tatjana \u017ditkova, published by  U Nikitskix vorot in  Moscow, 2015. the poems were selected from ten poetry books that appeared between 1984-2010 in Germany and US. The book is illustrated by ten collages by author in black-and-white. The cover displays  \u201c(A)symetry)\u201d in color. 142 pages.
\n<\/span>Can be obtained at: www.uniki.ru<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.labirint.ru\/books\/509345\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.ozon.ru\/context\/detail\/id\/34947796\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.chitai-gorod.ru\/catalog\/book\/872007\/?_ga=1.63386027.567420755.1450871860<\/a><\/p>\n

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Neprinale\u017enis<\/em>t\u2019<\/em>  <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

 \"rsz_pkniha\"<\/a><\/strong>(Noncorformity)<\/strong> is a selection of poetry of Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 in Ukrainian translation by Viktor Mel\u2019nyk. Appeared in Tverdyna, Lutsk, 2014, 128 pp. The poems are selected from ten books of poetry dated between 1984-2010. The book is illustrated by author\u2019s collages in black and white. On the cover is her collage \u201cMagic\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Az sym tvoiata sydba <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"azsym\"<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

(I Am Your Destiny)<\/strong>, selection of poetry of Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 in Bulgarian translation by Dimitar Stefanov), Haini, Sofia, 2013. On the cover a collage by author \u201cNaked Truth\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Stihovete v nastoiashtoto izdanie na Bronislava Volkova sa podbrani ot toma “Spomeni na moreto” \u2013 izbrani stihotvorenia ot 1973 – 2010 godina, izdadeni v Chehia prez 2011 g. Bronislava Volkova e izvestna cheshka poetesa, pisala i izdavala stihove i na anglijski ezik. Nejni tvorbi sa prevedeni na devet ezika. Za svoiata poeticheska, kulturna i nauchna dejnost e poluchavala nagradi, vkliuchitelno i ot Sindikata na bylgarskite uchiteli vyv Varna pri uchastieto v mezhdunarodna<\/span> pisatelska sreshta prez 2012 g.<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Tygata ima miris na hliab
\n<\/span><\/em>az sym pregazena<\/em><\/span>
\n az sym vdovica prepynata<\/em><\/span>
\n az sym vdovica<\/em><\/span>
\n i ne se molia veche za zhazhda…<\/em><\/span>
\n Nalej mi chasha sylzi<\/em><\/span>
\n te sa evtini kato dumite<\/em><\/span>
\n i posle nedej obryshta vnimanie…”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Bronislava Volkova<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Can be obtained at: http:\/\/books.balkanatolia.com\/cgi-bin\/catalogB.cgi\/sl-e\/p-l\/mid-413\/s-0\/.html<\/p>\n

Vzpom\u00ednky mo\u0159e<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Vzpom\u00ednky  mo\u0159e<\/em>(The Sea Recalls)<\/strong>, Collected Poems from the Years 1973-2010, Pavel Mervart, \u010cerven\u00fd Kostelec, Czech Republic 2011<\/span><\/p>\n

Collected poems from ten poetry collections of Bronislava Volkov\u00e1. The work is illustrated by ten color collages by the author and contains a CD of her reading. The work is concluded by an afterword by Vladim\u00edr Novotn\u00fd, as well as introductions and afterwords from previous editions published abroad (by Bohumil Hrabal, Lubom\u00edr Dole\u017eel, Willis Barnstone and Marie Banerjee N\u011bmcov\u00e1). The book was published by Pavel Mervart 2011 (hardbound, 392 pp) under a grant of Ministry of Culture of Czech Republic and Borns Jewish Program of Indiana University. The poetry has been widely reviewed and translated into eight languages. Much of it is available in English translation. This is the first edition of Volkov\u00e1\u2018s work in Czech Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Available here:<\/p>\n

www.kosmas.cz<\/a>, www.pavelmervart.cz<\/a>, www.bronislavavolkova.com<\/a><\/p>\n

And Drink We Will from Delectable Wells… <\/strong><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Explorer Editions, Bloomington, IN, USA 2011. Czech version, ibid. 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bronislava Volkov\u00e1\u2019s poetry collection offers us a poetry which expresses author\u2019s philosophy of spiritual liberation and perpetual rejuvenation in the here and now, sending out shoots of new growth in all directions. Her verse is the flight of imagination of the heart and of language itself. Its light, effervescent quality is matched by its commitment to intellectual sobriety. Her message to humankind, sometimes dark and sometimes bright, is always generous. It is filled with an irrepressible gust of emotional exhilaration ever poised to break through her delicately winnowed lines. At one moment she cautions against spiritual death and in the next celebrates the breathtaking, shared gift of life. Her poetry has been described as \u201ccomplicatedly simple\u201d (Josef Hrub\u00fd), a \u201csun for the conjuring away of night,\u201d (Mari\u00e1n Hatala) and a lyrical space where \u201cfreedom is paramount\u201d (Clarice Cloutier).<\/span><\/p>\n

~Bethany Braley, May 2011<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The book (2010-11) is being published simultaneously in Czech and English as a limited twin edition with three color collages and two photographs by the author in each. Custom bound, 73 pages each, $15.00<\/b> per copy +$5.00<\/b> for shipping and handling. Sold separately or together. When ordering, send a check made out to Bronislava Volkov\u00e1. E-mail orders are welcome: volkova@indiana.edu<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

A p\u00edt budeme ze studn\u00ed lahodn\u00fdch <\/strong><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\"0001_a_pit_s\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Explorer Editions, Bloomington, IN, USA 2011. Czech version, ibid. 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bronislava Volkov\u00e1\u2019s poetry collection offers us a poetry which expresses author\u2019s philosophy of spiritual liberation and perpetual rejuvenation in the here and now, sending out shoots of new growth in all directions. Her verse is the flight of imagination of the heart and of language itself. Its light, effervescent quality is matched by its commitment to intellectual sobriety. Her message to humankind, sometimes dark and sometimes bright, is always generous. It is filled with an irrepressible gust of emotional exhilaration ever poised to break through her delicately winnowed lines. At one moment she cautions against spiritual death and in the next celebrates the breathtaking, shared gift of life. Her poetry has been described as \u201ccomplicatedly simple\u201d (Josef Hrub\u00fd), a \u201csun for the conjuring away of night,\u201d (Mari\u00e1n Hatala) and a lyrical space where \u201cfreedom is paramount\u201d (Clarice Cloutier).<\/span><\/p>\n

~Bethany Braley, May 2011<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

E-mail orders are welcome: volkova@indiana.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Up the Devil`s Back \/ Po h\u0159bet\u011b \u010f\u00e1bla: A Bilingual Anthology of 209th Century Czech Poetry<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/i><\/b>Up the Devil\u2019s Back \/ Po h\u0159bet\u011b d’\u00e1bla: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th<\/sup>Century Czech Poetry<\/i>, Slavica Publishers, Bloomington, IN, 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n

presents 65 selected Czech poets in English translation, together with their biographies. Co-translated and co-edited by Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 (Professor of Czech literature, Comparative literature and Jewish studies at Indiana University) and Clarice Cloutier (Assistant Professor of Central European literature and culture at New York University [Prague campus] and Lecturer at Charles University, Prague). The anthology features well-known poets alongside those who have not received well-deserved attention, female poets alongside males and exile poets alongside those who remained in Czechoslovakia under totalitarian regime. With Introduction by authors and Afterward by Alfred Thomas.<\/span><\/p>\n

 \u201cThese poems are more than an expression of a series of individual talents: above all they bear witness to a culture whose survival in the calamitous twentieth century is nothing less than a miracle. The same might be said of the publication of this anthology.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n

From the Afterword by Alfred Thomas, University of Illinois, Chicago<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo be frank, it takes an enormous deal of personal courage to undertake a project such as either history or anthology of one\u2019s own literature. Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 and Clarice Cloutier took a look at the Czech poetry today, set up limits, and created thirteen categories: Beginning with the middle of nineteenth century Czech poet Anton\u00edn Sova (1864-1928), they scanned the highlights of different phases of modern Czech poetry developments and went to work, thus opening the riches, and the marvels, of contemporary Czech poetry to any Czech or English-speaking interested reader all the way to contemporary Martin Reiner (born 1964)\u2026 this Slavica volume is a veritable walk through a garden of delights.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

From the review by Ji\u0159ina Fuchsov\u00e1, poet, former lecturer at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Czech Dialogue<\/i>, 7-8, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUp the Devil’s Back, a bilingual anthology of 20th-century Czech poetry<\/i> just hitting Prague bookstore shelves, is one of the more successful recent examples of such attempts at being definitive\u2026.. the monumental task of selecting and translating the work of 65 Czech poets and giving such eclectic diversity a sense of unity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

From the announcement by Stephan Delbos, Prague Post<\/i>, Dec 9, 2009<\/span><\/div>\n

\u201cThis anthology, containing 168 poems by 65 twentieth-century poets, most of which appear here in English for the first time, is absolutely indispensable for students and teachers of Czech literature and culture. It is also an enjoyable reading for anyone interested in poetry in general, or preparing for a trip to Prague. \u2026Volkov\u00e1 and Cloutier deserve praise for accomplishing the admirable feat of compiling the most complete poetry anthology ever published in English. It is more objective and reliable than its outdated predecessors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

From the review by Kirsten Lodge, Columbia University, SEEJ<\/i> 2010<\/span><\/p>\n

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Born out of Darkness, Explorer Editions, Bloomington-Praha<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Explorer Editions, Bloomington, IN 2005.  <\/span>This book of the well known Czech American poet is taking the reader on a journey through the most grievous errors of human civilizations as well as through personal grief and self made traps fabricated by the structures of modern life. It then switches the mirrors, taking us to places of peace, wisdom, lightness and consolation. The author moves through environmental and war issues, old and modern civilizations\u2018 inhumanity, aging and death of the closest ones and ends with peaceful meditational poetry. The book was supported by a grant from Indiana Arts Comission.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/span>Explorer Editions, Bloomington-Praha, <\/em><\/span>2004. <\/span>This book of the well known Czech American poet is taking the reader on a journey through the most grievous errors of human civilizations as well as through personal grief and self made traps fabricated by the structures of modern life. It then switches the mirrors, taking us to places of peace, wisdom, lightness and consolation. The author moves through environmental and war issues, old and modern civilizations\u2018 inhumanity, aging and death of the closest ones and ends with peaceful meditational poetry. The book was supported by a grant from Indiana Arts Comission.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jist\u00e1 nep\u0159\u00edtomnost \/ A Certain Absence<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Jist\u00e1 nep\u0159\u00edtomnost \/ A Certain Absence<\/i><\/strong>, bilingual limited edition of Explorer Editions, Bloomington-Prague, 2003. Co-translated by author and Clarice Cloutier.<\/span><\/p>\n

English translation of Jist\u00e1 nep\u0159\u00edtomnost,<\/i> originally published in Czech by PmD (Poetry Abroad), Munich in 1990.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe author tends to an existential abbreviation, to the reflection of a moment. Her crystalline poetry, which strives for genuine expression, should be published in its totality in our country as well: it is an informed, mature poetry of our times. However, another era will surely have to begin before it is freely accessible to us. Even though it is true that \u2018poems are mere nothing\/ the stairs into the pain of the horizon\u2019\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Vladim\u00edr Novotn\u00fd, Mlad\u00e1 Fronta Dnes, Prague 2-5-1991<\/span><\/p>\n

Bronislava Volkov\u00e1\u2019s poetry pulls back the curtain, revealing an arena where the profound and mundane elements of life engage one another and vie for reality. The reader, at times in muted shock, absorbs the enfolding scene at a personal pace and explores the myriad of subtle implications presented in the verses which in turn carefully stretch one into a deeper state of discernment.<\/span><\/p>\n

In her collection, A Certain Absence<\/i>, Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 beckons one to draw close to the cosmic juxtaposition of presence and absence within the vortex of existence without the danger of losing one\u2019s balance: freedom is paramount. The reader is awakened and aware of the void where one, having done all, is empowered to stand in peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clarice Cloutier, \u201cIntroduction\u201d, 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Entering Light \/Vstup do sv\u011btla<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe second of Volkov\u00e1’s innovative collections of bilingual poetry, Entering Light <\/i>\/ Vstup do sv\u011btla<\/i> contains a beautiful pairing of dreamlike, light-filled, sometimes a bit surreal poems in both Czech and English as well as six stunning color collages created by the author. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

Kristin  Reed, Indiana University, Bloomington<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJust like its immediate predecessor, Prom\u011bny \/ Transformations<\/i> (2001), this cycle of poems is written in the hybrid form of bilingual writing that has become the hallmark of Volkov\u00e1\u2019s creativity. Shifting stakes beyond the level of self-translation, the art of dual composition conceives of the twin poems as a single imaginative whole, with the Czech and English versions carrying the same value of authenticity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Maria Banerjee N\u011bmcov\u00e1, Smith College, Northampton, Kosmas<\/i>, 2003<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201c\u2026 And it is so difficult to write a poem, which would not be useless. A poem that at least one reader would not be able to forget. A poem which contains an unexpected knowledge. A poem that would be a scalpel opening the soul. A poem \u2013 a challenge to an indifferent heart. A poem that would awaken the sleeping self. The poetry of Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 is not useless. A single assiduous reading of one of her collections, will anchor a person firmly and will make them her admirer. Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 offers an insight into her sensitive and restless heart, filled with an artistically refined search for oneself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

V\u011bra Hoffmannov\u00e1, Charles University, Prague, 2001<\/span><\/p>\n

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Prom\u011bny \/ Transformations<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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 \u201eThe phenomenon of bilingual creation is not rare in literature (e.g. R. M. Rilke, in Bohemia J. Deml\u2026), however, systematic self-translation is almost unique (e.g. Josif Brodskij). The extensive bilingual collection of Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 Prom\u011bny \/ Transformations<\/i> (Prague 2001, 170 pages) has in this respect an exceptional meaning for Czech literature. The poet was, however, not satisfied with a mere translation, but she expanded it by another dimension: she interprets her poetry also visually in eight color collages of her own, whose titles (e.g. \u201aIllusions and Spirit\u2018, \u201aWandering toward Light\u2018, \u201aSources of Life\u2018) emphasize the clear thread of her work and its transformations<\/i> from the area of sensory reflections and simple dialogue with herself and with the world toward a more spiritual level, which is clearly inspired by the ideas of New Age.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe work of \u00e9migr\u00e9 poet, scholar and linguist Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 illustrates how the artist\u2019s impulse to create can triumph over having been cast out of Paradise. As Maria Banerjee aptly observes in her Afterword to the fascinating and highly engaging collection, Prom\u011bny \/ Transformations<\/i>, Volkov\u00e1 \u2018a healer\u2019 who \u2018has moved beyond the trauma of exile\u2019 through the power of her cross-cultural vision. Volkov\u00e1\u2019s transformations chart her odyssey through the fires of alienation from which she arises phoenix-like with unity restored. Initially, the lyric functions as a disembodied \u2018cry that carves sorrow\u2019 (pl\u00e1\u010d jen\u017e vytes\u00e1v\u00e1 ho\u0159e), materializing before us as if brief illuminations out of the void. In the beginning, there is suffering, darkness, disruption and the frozen wastelands of Dante\u2019s hellish vision (The Inferno<\/i> the work of another poet-exile). As the cycles progress, Volkov\u00e1\u2019s \u2018I\u2019 finally conquers its terror of nothingness by facing its fears head on to accept the universe\u2019s constant state of flux.\u201d
\n<\/span>Deborah Garfinkle, Menlo College, California, Kosmas,<\/i> 2004<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mot\u00e1ky do u\u0161\u00ed p\u011bny \/ Prison Notes Smuggled into the Ears of Sea Foam<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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 \u201cIf we leave the youngest Czech literary offspring aside, it is exactly Volkov\u00e1 who is the first contemporary well-known poet, about whom we can say without any exaggeration that she is becoming or rather has already definitively become a bilingual author and it is precisely she, who can be called a Czech-American poet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026. [her] verses have their roots in that vision of open world and later \u2013 perhaps even in the form of those \u201cprison notes smuggled into the ears of sea foam\u2019 \u2013 if we should pay homage to her classical poetic image \u2013 they become a momentous argument convincing us that literary reflection continues to have weight even in the foolish world of mass media abbreviation and poetry on the verge of globalizing creative illiteracy\u2026. We all are constantly thrown into the ever-present foam of the days \u2013 but only the lyrical poetic stanzas are able to recognize the longed for form in this chaos and labyrinth, to install the desired order, to find the way toward the goal \u2013 i.e. they know how to be poetry.\u201d
\n<\/span>Vladim\u00edr Novotn\u00fd, Prague, Listopad,<\/i> 2000
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\u201cIn the poetry of Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 there is something silky, something like threads of a spider web stretched in an open space. Each poem is an attempt to hold the words in a weightless state above the sensed oppressive weight of the world. A few years ago this poetry was still something of an exception in the Czech context. Today, in the new era, it flows right into the main stream, which is an interesting proof of the fact that Czech poetry is as alive in Bloomington as it is in Prague. This collection of Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 shows very clearly the intrinsic lyricism and stylistic tenderness which so far have not received much attention in foreign portrayals of literature.\u201d
\n<\/span>Miroslav Holub, Prague<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is striking how fast the sense of exactness and metaphoric firmness and purity grows in her poetry. It is realized e.g. in the area of verbal tenses: in the perfect tense she evokes a feeling of a roaming uncertainly, nostalgia and melancholy, while the present tense is a field of brutally concrete visions and situations (\u2018the sound of wind reminds me of cut flesh\u2019) and dynamically vivid and clear discourses (\u2018When I dance, I smell of the colors \/ of laughing hillsides\u2026\u2019 To the raw concrete words belongs the perhaps most frequented noun \u2018vzduch\u2019 (air) which also characteristically entered into the title of one of her collections Vzduch bez podpatk\u016f <\/i>(Air without Heels, 1987).\u201d
\n<\/span>Mojm\u00edr Tr\u00e1vn\u00ed\u010dek, Brno, Proglas 8, 1996<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Shattered Worlds are characterized by a much richer register than we suggested in the previous lines. Toward the more striking moments belong American motives, archaic and modern semiotics worlds, invasion of linguistic terminology into lyric poetry, etc. Our task, however, did not consist in the exhaustive catalogisation of its items. Let us be thankful that Czech poetry has in the person of Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 a type of a poet, who inventively combines intense lyricism with intellectualizing meditation.\u201d
\n<\/span>Petr Hanu\u0161ka, Olomouc, Tvar <\/i>(Prague), 1997<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Substantially more extensive is the book Rozt\u0159\u00ed\u0161t\u011bn\u00e9 sv\u011bty<\/i> (Shattered Worlds), subtitled Selected poems 1974 \u2013 1989<\/i>. This book offers a cross-section through the work of the author, showing that the fifteen years from her departure to exile till the fall of the totalitarian system in Czechoslovakia were for Bronislava Volkov\u00e1  extremely fruitful poetically. The collection was published in 1995 by a well-known Olomouc publishing house Votobia. This very ingeniously crafted selection covers all the forms of her poetic handwriting, the diversity of her thematic direction, the wealth and originality of her motives. This poly-thematic and poly-motivic character exemplifies the best that Czech poetry gave birth to in the essentially dramatic decades of the second half of the twentieth century.\u201d
\n<\/span>Igor Hochel, PEN, Bratislava, 2004<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>(<\/span>Selected Poems)<\/strong> Sheep Meadow Press, New York, 1993. Co-translated by author, Willis Barnstone, Andrew Durkin, Gregory Orr and Lilli Parrott.<\/span> \u201cLook at the table of contents – the dream imagination, the ordinary every-day-ness of her many-nationed realities, the whimsy, the absurd imagination, the overt sexuality of her earth, fruit and firmaments, the woman exile with eyes and lips, her momentary hook into time, into life impermanent, a dozen sutras about our transitory years on earth say no more, as she writes about her impossibilities in \u2018Exile,\u2019 \u2018Neither the postman nor the wind\/will deliver the unpaid debt.\u2019 But Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 is more than her startling fragments. There is a flow and a largess. There are so many things, so many names, so much good language and observations in this Czech and American poet. She has the watchmaker’s tools and, as we watch her work, we may get stuck with splinters of Chippendale furniture. It is good to be bruised by her poems. Each one is an electric dream. Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 commands our sense of discovery.\u201d<\/span>             
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\u201cProposing that human nature is best transformed through language, Volkov\u00e1 sets about describing a world in which \u2018everything is possible.\u2019 This is true at least for the brief duration of these mostly untitled, lyrical and highly readable poems. Translated by the author with Willis Barnstone, Andrew Durkin, Gregory Orr and Lilli Parrott, this impressive collection also includes a handful of poems originally written in English.\u201d
\n<\/span>Publishers Weekly<\/i>, June 14, 1993<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/span>\u201cWhat is imagination? Is it not Volkov\u00e1\u2019s poetic ambition to \u2018heal\u2019 us by freeing our imagination? She wants to burn like \u2018an astonished meteor\u2019 \u2013 that is, to write as if she were carrying a message from another world (not just from Prague). She would not be content to be just a Czech poet displaced in America, adding, as Barnstone says, \u2018a Czech presence in poetry for the English language.\u2019 He poems want to reaffirm the importance of poetry in the world today \u2013 the importance of poetry alongside sleep, dreams, miracles, silence. More than just contributing a new idiom to \u2018the English language,\u2019 her poetry wants us to hear something beyond language itself. It tries to reach beyond seeing, and, paradoxically, this is why the poet manages to exploit visual images with such force. To read her right, however, means to overcome the fascination of the eye. She is well aware of the difficulty of her task: \u2018Poems \/ today walk \/ in different clothes \/ \u2026 A little spirit is missing.\u2019\u201d
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\"\"<\/a>PmD (Vulnerability of the Earth,<\/strong> Poetry Abroad), Munich, 1992. <\/span>\u201cIn \u2018Vulnerability of the Earth\u2019, Volkov\u00e1 searches for the untouchable. She steps on her toes to survey her land \u2018blooming with spirit\u2019. She removes herself from this world only to approach it even more, – a basic paradox, which forms the spine of her spiritual experience.\u201d
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\u201cPoetry collection A Certain Absence <\/i>shows, that we have in front of us an experienced author, who not only perfectly masters the secret of the creation of modern lyric, its devices and techniques, but also has a unique, original voice. The collection A Certain Absence<\/i> confirms that we will have to place Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 somewhere in the forefront of contemporary Czech poetry.\u201d
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(Air without Heels) <\/strong>PmD\/Poetry Abroad, 1987.  \u201cShe affects mostly by her breathing, the freedom, with which she shifts from aiming toward utterance to an autonomous discovery, without getting stuck on one of these two \u201cpoles\u201d. Precisely Air without Heels<\/i> strikes us by the heightened importance of the \u201cmessage\u201d and the author\u2019s vision of the world. Even the characteristic lightness of the author\u2019s verse itself, which is equally its quality and inner value, becomes an urgent poetic thought and it seeks an echo in reality. The best works in the collection are thus both unique word crystals and quiet, but giddy challenges which illuminate reality in a new way and cut out of it unknown, but equally unique territories.\u201d
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(House on Fire) <\/strong>PmD\/Poetry Abroad, 1985, <\/span>\u201cVolkov\u00e1 tests the words. She is curious, what will they bear and still be communicative? Under what circumstances will they still allow the reader to enter the poem? She is tempted to seek the space, which one can reach beyond words. Poetry becomes for her a linguistic creative process. One can also say that the world of Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 is a linguistic laboratory. The titles are significant and they are the gate into the world beyond the poems. In spite of their \u2018intricacy\u2019, they are metaphorically meaningful. Where this crossing happens, a very authentic poetry sparks:\u2026\u201d
\n<\/span>Vladim\u00edr Justl, Prague, Rok<\/i>, 1992<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> (Prison Notes Smuggled into the Ears of Sea Foam), <\/strong>PmD Poetry  Abroad, Munich 1984.
\n<\/span>\u201cThe book of poetry of Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 brings the reader surprising reversals in each poem, her verses fall like drops of water almost to the rhythm of the human heart. One could say of the poet’s poems that they resemble music in T.S. Eliot’s sense, that music is a vertical line held as a mirror up to the beating of the heart… The poet Bronislava Volkov\u00e1 has reached human boundary situations, situations, which lead to transcendence. Her verses hide both the wisdom and the colorfulness of the poets of ancient China, as well as the sharp cut of the surrealist poets. So Bronislava’s book is able not only to move the heart and the soul, but also refresh the spirit…\u201d
\n<\/span>Bohumil Hrabal, Kersko, Obrys<\/i>, Munich, 1986<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the images of individual poems, relatively short, often staccato, challengingly and unusually linked, she compels the reader to maximum concentration.\u201d
\n<\/span>Jan Proch\u00e1zka, Paris, Sv\u011bdectv\u00ed,<\/i> 1986<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nejmen\u0161\u00ed <\/strong><\/em>p\u0159ipom\u00ednka Tv\u00e9ho byt\u00ed…<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>This CD represents a non-identical, expanded twin to the English version, a thirty year retrospective poetry reading, from nine books of poetry by the author with musical inserts by Gita Morenov\u00e1, Dagmar Z\u00e1rubov\u00e1 (violin) and Bo\u017eena Kronychov\u00e1 (piano); <\/span>79.07 minutes.  <\/span>A few poems are also read in English. <\/span>
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DVD of Multimedia Performance of a retrospective poetry reading with collage projections, music and dance in the IMU Faculty Club, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 3, 2013. Violin improvisation by Alexander Shonert, Dance by Allana Radecki and Joanne Shank, reading, collages, artistic direction  and production by Bronislava Volkova. In English with occasional poems in Czech. Sponsored by College of Arts & Humanities Institute, Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures & Russian and East European Institute. Film by David Derkacy. Cover design by Bronislava Volkova<\/span>. 
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\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span>DVD of multimedia poetry performance of a bilingual book Entering Light\/Vstup do sv\u011btla with dance, music, collage projections and light effects in John Waldron Arts Center in Bloomington, IN, 2003. Piano improvisation by Hakan Toker, dance by Contact Collective, lighting by Mike Price, collages and artistic direction by author, filmography by Community Access Television Station Bloomington and Rob Dietz, Explorer Editions, Bloomington, IN, 2006. In English, with occasional Czech poems.
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