Tidal Events: Selected Poems - Softcover

Ferencuhova, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848615744 ISBN 13: 9781848615748

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2018

Synopsis

Mária Ferenčuhová  has emerged as one of the most promising and original European poets of the twenty-first century and is a rising star at international festivals. Beginning as one of the cool, post-modernist Slovak "aNesthetic" and "Text" poets using a matter-of-fact language with precise visual perceptions, her work has expanded its range of concerns from urban life to a wider perception of the individual in a world damaged by history and threatened by environmental destruction. At the heart of her work is a profound belief in a necessary relationship between human beings and the earth.

It doesn’t take much: touch the earth 
like one’s own skin, 
let the nervous system 
overgrow through the border of the body
take root, 
descend to the depths of the river, 
not to persist in running, 
to stop, 
give.

 

About this title

About the Author

Slovak poet Maria Ferencuhova was born in Bratislava in 1975 and is a poet, translator and film theorist. She is editor of the of the film magazine, King-Icon, translates from French and teaches at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and the Academy of Arts in Banska Bystrica. She has published four collections of poetry, Skryte titulky (Hidden subtitles, 2003), Princip neistoty (Principle of uncertainty, 2008), Ohroz-eny druh (Threatened Species, 2012) and Imunita (Immunity, 2016), and also a study of documentary film, Odlozeny cas (Time Delay).

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848615744
• ISBN 13: 9781848615748
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 98