Intensive Care: Selected and New Poems [Paperback]

This collection spans almost 40 years of writing, much of it under circumstances that involved risk and silence, living under Communism in Czechoslovakia, pursuing a career as a scientist, and carrying on the 20th century's experimental tradition as represented by artists like Arp, Miro, and William Carlos Williams. By the time of his death in 1998, Miroslav Holub had become one of the most widely acclaimed poets on the planet.

A Note on the Selection and Translations (GENEALOGY) Bones Wings Truth The Door Riders Fall of Troy Discobolos The Fly Napoleon The Corporal Who Killed Archimedes Great Ancestors From the Travels of Abigdor Karo Glass Fish Skinning The Forest Dreams Five Minutes After the Air Raid Annuciation The Steam Car The Prague of Jan Palach Whaling At Last The Moth Head-Smashed-In Crowd-Walkers The British Museum The Ten Commandments Supper (ANTHROPOLOGY) Ode to Joy Love Lovers in August Night at the Observatory United Flight 412 Landscapes The Minotaur on Love On the Origin of 6 p.m. Love, As They Say Parallels Syndrome The End of the Week Freedom The Day of the Pollyanna The Dangers of the Night Man Cursing the Sea Burning The Wall inthe Corner by the Stairs Half a Hedgehog My Mother Learns Spanish Autumn Philosophy of Fall The Garden of Old People A Boys Head Prince Hamlets Milk Tooth Teacher Hemophilia/Los Angeles Immanuel Kant Whale Songs Elementary School Field Trip to the Dinosaur Exhibit The Rampage Masterpiece (SEMIOLOGY) Although Swans in Flight Teaching About Diseases Brief Reflection on Cats Growing on Trees Brief Reflection on Accuracy Brief Reflection on the Theory of Relativity Brief Reflection on an Old Woman with a Pushcart Brief Reflection on Gargoyles Brief Reflection on the Butchering of Carp Brief Reflection on Floods Meeting Ezra Pound The Autumn Bus The Angel of Dl³³