Let's Meet in a Poem.

Volkova, Bronislava

Let's Meet in a Poem Let's meet in a poem like in an open book. Like in a bush that burns, like in a forgotten word which now knocks on the door of memory We sink under the weight of fear and need on this forsaken planet chewing the horrors of captivity, covered up with aprons of newspapers, personal pleasures and success to laugh at. Our world is made of important walls and rages, of scorn of that which isn't like us, which resists us, doesn't understand us, doesn't reach our assumed greatness.

WLT AUTHOR FACTS

AUTHOR Bronislava Volkova (b. 1946)

COUNTRY Czech Republic

PRINCIPAL GENRES Verse, Criticism

Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures at Indiana University, Bloomington, BRONISLAVA VOLKOVA was born in Decin, Czechoslovakia, in 1946 and left the country for political reasons in 1974. She is the author of numerous books of poetry in Czech and English (some bilingual) as well as publications from the field of linguistic and literary semiotics, including Courage of the Rainbow (1993), A Feminist's Semiotic Odyssey through Czech Literature (1997), and Prison Notes Smuggled into the Ears of Seafoam (1999). Her poetry has been translated into several languages and widely reviewed.