Otokar Brezina (1868-1929) was the most prominent Czech poet of his day. HIDDEN HISTORY, however, is not precisely poetry but a collection of "poetic essays." Brezina's creation of this entirely new genre represents the apotheosis of his work, as well as a prime example of his ablity to apply metaphorical language to an exploration of the mystical links between art and life and between the visible and invisible worlds.
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Approaching the irrational passions of life with a manic rush, . . . Brezina forsakes rational structures of thought, instead creating towers of language that often exhibit powerfully abstract imagery. -- David Auerbach, Rain Taxi, Spring, 1999
Brezina was the greatest of Czech symbolists, indeed, one of the great figures in European symbolism generally . . . Bulkin has produced a fine and faithful translation which I can recommend to anyone . . . -- James Partridge, The New Presence, March, 1999
Hidden History [is] a unique marriage of philosophical investigation and artistic endeavor that produced finely wrought lyrical expositions of Brezina's aesthetic and mystical beliefs. -- The Prague Post, September 8, 1998
Brezina was the greatest of Czech symbolists, indeed, one of the great figures in European symbolism generally . . . Bulkin has produced a fine and faithful translation which I can recommend to anyone . . . -- James Partridge, The New Presence, March, 1999
Hidden History [is] a unique marriage of philosophical investigation and artistic endeavor that produced finely wrought lyrical expositions of Brezina's aesthetic and mystical beliefs. -- The Prague Post, September 8, 1998
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A complete volume of Brezina's work has never before appeared in English, though a few translations of his poems have appeared in anthologies long out of print. We thought that giving the importance of his work, a volume of Brezina's essays, which are really prose poems, would be a good way of introducing him to an English-language audience.
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