Worm-Eaten Time

By Pavel Šrut Translated from Czech by Deborah Garfinkle Pavel Šrut's Worm-Eaten Time collects the seminal work of one of the Czech Republic's most important living poets, in an award-winning translation by Deborah H. Garfinkle.  Publication Date: 2016-03-08 Paperback: 9781939419613 Description With dark humor and surprising tenderness, Šrut's Soviet-banned masterpiece is an elegy for Šrut's fallen homeland, written in the months following the Soviet invasion. An essential addition to the canon of twentieth-century banned literature, his work as a poet testifies to the power of poetry and the human spirit that can overcome the forces that would silence an individual's will to speak the truth. Biographical Note Pavel Šrut (b. 1940) is an award-winning poet, essayist, writer and translator who belongs to the generation of post-war Czech writers whose voices gained prominence in the flowering of Prague Spring, voices silenced by censorship in the aftermath of the 1968 Soviet Invasion o