Pavol Rankov Stalo sa prvého septembra (alebo inokedy) It Happened on the First of September (or at another time) Bratislava, Kalligram 2008 According to the…
Dušan Mitana’s journey to the shelves of foreign bookstores took considerable time, though, I remember that in linguistic regions accessible to me, he was at…
Miroslav Válek Lastovička vo fraku (Swallow in Tails) Bratislava, Kalligram, 2006 When they first appeared, these poems by Miroslav Válek marked a departure in…
Márius Kopcsay Zbytočný život (Useless Life) Levice, LCA Publishers Group, 2006 It started with An Important Day, then came The Lost Years, and finally (for…
The translators’ preface notes recurring images of bread and water, with sacramental overtones, in Rúfus’s poetry, but perhaps more striking, in part because of…
