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From Follett
Includes bibliographical references.;Selected poems : A fool -- Signs of autumn -- Hoar-frost -- Springtide -- Ballad -- The morning... -- Pilgrimage to La Salette -- Dawn in winter -- Idyll, morning -- Mid-winter longing -- Three goats -- Cockerels -- Carpenters in the wind -- Hair -- Spider -- Fly -- Gathering potatoes -- Yellow bedstraw, a blessing -- Snow across the threshold -- The well at morning -- Hawkmoths at evening -- Light breeze -- Initials -- Evening -- Shadows -- November -- Goats in the field -- At home -- A memory -- Hay rick in winter -- Advent in Stara Rise -- Twilight -- Job in winter -- A dead cat -- But still the levins -- Quince on the table -- Wet snow -- Swallow -- At home -- Frost -- Rue L... -- Door -- Through the dark -- Paths of home -- November - Windows on streets -- Goose in mist -- Saint Martin -- Sticks in a fence -- Looking forward -- The angel of distress -- Swallows flown -- Match in a puddle. Graphic art (with commentaries by Jiri Serych). Four poems by Suzanne Renaud : Harvest moon -- Tom Thumb -- Wearish old tree -- Day of the Dead, 1938. Essays on Bohuslav Reynek : Bohuslav Reynek: from Catholic counterculture and the apocalypse to a Highland farm / Martin C. Putna -- Reynek's journeys / Justin Quinn -- Bohuslav Reynek's graphic art / Jiri Serych. Czech titles of English poems -- List of illustrations -- Translator's acknowledgements. Poet and artist Bohuslav Reynek spent most of his life in the relative obscurity of the Czech-Moravian Highlands. Although he suffered at the hands of the Communist regime, he cannot be numbered among the dissident poets of Eastern Europe who won acclaim for their political poetry; rather, Reynek belongs to an older pastoral-devotional tradition - a kindred spirit to the likes of Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and Edward Thomas. The first comprehensive book on Reynek to be published in English, this work presents a selection of poems spanning his life and includes twenty-five of the poet's color etchings. Featuring three essays by leading scholars situating Reynek's life and work alongside those of his better-known peers, this book presents a noted Czech artist to the wider world, reshaping and deepening our understanding of modern European poetry.
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Springtide
A chaffinch in a tree
of cherry sings merrily
spring's introit.
Its blazing bobble dwells
in leaves, alive, and swells
in scarlet.
The flowers are flares of white.
The chaffinch has gone quiet
and turned sky-gazer.
My eyes close on the day:
an orb revolves in grey
and red and azure.
Poet and artist Bohuslav Reynek spent most of his life in the relative obscurity of the Czech-Moravian Highlands; although he suffered at the hands of the Communist regime, he cannot be numbered among the dissident poets of Eastern Europe who won acclaim for their political poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. Rather, Reynek belongs to an older pastoral-devotional tradition--a kindred spirit to the likes of English-language poets Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and Edward Thomas. The Well at Morning presents a selection of poems from across his life and is illustrated with twenty-five of his own color etchings. Also featuring three essays by leading scholars that place Reynek's life and work alongside those of his better-known peers, this book presents a noted Czech artist to the wider world, reshaping and amplifying our understanding of modern European poetry.