Product Description: Czech writer Jaroslav Seifert won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984. Over the Waves of TSF, which contains poems he read on the French National Radio, is his most experimental book, with numerous typographical innovations, influenced in particular by his meetings and friendship with Guillaume Apollinarie in France...read more

Product Description: Seifert's poetry is strongly situated within the Czech literary tradition of Poetism, which evolved into a playful, lighthearted refuge from world history while maintaining an edge of social consciousness. The playfulness of Seifert's early poetry expresses itself in anecdotes and witty aphorisms, and relies importantly on such sound patterns as alliteration, assonance, and euphony...read more

Poems celebrate the beauties of women, art, and the poet's Czech homeland

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A lyrical anthology of poetry by the 1984 Nobel Prize winner presents English translations of poems distinguished by their luminous clarity, directness, unpretentious simplicity, and irony and includes selected passages from Seifert's memoirs

From the 1984 Nobel Prize-winning Czech poet comes a lyric, poetic portrait of an apple tree through all the seasons of the year

The reminiscences of the Nobel Prize-winning Czech poet are accompanied by incisive essays and observations on the significant cultural movements, literary creativity, and artistic evolution of the twentieth century

Product Description: In English and Czech in facing pages. This is the book that Jaroslav Seifert asked us, on his death bed, to publish with his royalties from his The Casting Of Bells, which we had published a year before he won the Nobel Prize, and was his only book in English in the U...read more

Product Description: Book by Seifert, Jaroslav, Jagasich, Paul

Product Description: This is Seifert's first collection published in English in the U.S.A. (translated from the Czech). A year later, in 1984, he won the Nobel Prize for literature. A year after that he passed away, but not before The Spirit That Moves Us Press also published his Mozart In Prague: Thirteen Rondels (in Czech and English) and Eight Days: An Elegy for Thomas Masaryk (in Czech and English)...read more