T R A N S L A T I O N S

[Author biographies - if I have one - on the first poem, vertically.]

C Z E C H (with Tomas Mika)

Author uncertain, maybe Trojanova, Lullaby, sung by a woman to her husband

Zbynek Hejda, In the pub full of voices

Zbynek Hejda, Waxworks in Brighton Revisited

Ivan Martin Jirous, From Magor's Birds, 1986

Ivan Martin Jirous, J.K.

Ivan Martin Jirous, M.H.

Ivan Martin Jirous, To Jiri Gruntorad

Ivan Martin Jirous, Trashcan Sculptures

J.H.Krchovsky, Today my love is twenty-four

Frantisek Daniel Merth, Journal Entry for an Autumn Day

Jirí Orten, At Night

Jaroslav Pizl, Swarms swarm

Jaroslav Pizl, It's drizzling

Jaroslav Pizl, Insteps upwards

Jaroslav Pizl, Night on itself choking

Bohuslav Reynek, Cross

Bohuslav Reynek, Fool (version one)

Bohuslav Reynek, Fool (version two)

Bohuslav Reynek, Hunger

Bohuslav Reynek, Sigh

Zuzana Trojanova, Impossible Green Country

Zuzana Trojanova, Leavings

Zuzana Trojanova, Motto

Zuzana Trojanova, My Grand-dad made my mother and my father me

Zuzana Trojanova, Return Ticket

Zuzana Trojanova, The Platonic

Zuzana Trojanova, Time for Love

Zuzana Trojanova, Visiting Card

Ivan Wernisch, A total obliteration

Ivan Wernisch, At night

Ivan Wernisch, An Abandoned Town

Ivan Wernisch, Death

Ivan Wernisch, Flies

Ivan Wernisch, Elegy

Ivan Wernisch, Grey Angels

Ivan Wernisch, Hand

Ivan Wernisch, Let the Light Gutter

Ivan Wernisch, Nothing

Ivan Wernisch, O hardly

Ivan Wernisch, Snake

Ivan Wernisch, The Three Fu's

Ivan Wernisch, To Vaclav Danek

Ivan Wernisch, You hear those birds

?, An Angel Walks Here

?, He Is

?, I am certain

?, Space

??, Carp Haikus

??, Introduction to Prague

??, Mimosa

??, My darling, my dear one

??, Song For A Reed Flute

C Z E C H (with Virginia Little)

Jirí Orten, Black Painting

Jirí Orten, Lesser Elegy

Jirí Orten, Poem of Stone

Jirí Orten, Sonnet

Jirí Orten, What the little angel thinks

Jaroslav Seifert, 100nothings

Jaroslav Seifert, Dialogue

Jaroslav Seifert, Pendulumsong

Jaroslav Seifert, waterpainting

C Z E C H (with Eva Klimentová)

Jachym Topol, and there is this spider and

Jachym Topol, but now

Jachym Topol, emotions

F R E N C H

Artaud, The Tree

Baudelaire, The Albatross

Cocteau, Oh! La! La!

Corbière, Still-Life

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