Foreign Editions
Germany
hochroth
Poland
Convivo
USA
The University of Pittsburgh Press (forthcoming)
During his walks along the river Elbe in the Czech town Roudnice, where he lives, Milan Děžinský shapes his poems from small, everyday moments. In turn, his poetry collections are marked by a restrained, indirect expressivity that gains strength through understatement. In this collection, that approach reaches a rare level of concentration and was recognised by the Magnesia Litera Award in 2018, which described Walking Around an Island as “coherent and, in a certain sense, perfect. In every poem, one can find at least a single moment that crosses the boundary between the excellent and the extraordinary, the eloquent and the revelatory, the faithful and the immediate.”
The poem “After a Car Crash,” trans. by Nathan Fields, appeared in The New York Review of Books.
Published in 2017 by Host Publishers in the Czech Republic.
64 pages / 120 x 185 mm
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