Scent of the Unseen (Visible Poets)

Scent of the Unseen (Visible Poets)

by JamesSutherland-Smith (Translator), Mila Haugova (Author), VieraSutherland-Smith (Translator)

Synopsis

This first UK publication for Slovakia's leading woman poet concentrates on poetry written in the 1990s-perhaps Haugova's most fruitful period. Feminism and ancient myth contribute to the fabric of her work, as do the Central European traditions of surrealism and hermeticism. Haugova's is a poetry which continually reaches beyond itself, taking us into what might be unseen at the start of a poem but which is palpably evident once the poem has penetrated the pores of our skin.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 136
Publisher: Arc Publications
Published: 04 Nov 2003

ISBN 10: 1900072394
ISBN 13: 9781900072397

Media Reviews
In a time when western culture generates most of its symbols through the distortions of television, Mila Haugova retains the remarkable ability to sing of the symbolic heights and depths of experience. Bold, iconic and revelatory, these translations do great services to the poems of a major Central European writer. Andy Brown
Author Bio
Mila Haugova is Slovakia's best know female poet, author of twelve collections of poetry, the most recent of which (Genotexts) appeared in 2002. She is also highly regarded as a translator. James & Viera Sutherland-Smith are leading translators of Slovak poetry into English. James is also a poet, his collection At the Skin Resort being published by Arc in 1999. His most recent collection, In the Country of Birds was published in 2003 by Carcanet.