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Miloslav Topinka Czech Republic PWF 2015, 2004
Born in Nový Etynk, Czechoslovakia in 1945, he edited “Letters for Literature and Discussion” until it was banned in 1969. Utopia was spared, but The Rat’s Nest, his second collection of verse,was destroyed at the printer’s in 1970, finally appearing in the early nineties along with Compared to Me, All of You Are Just Poets, a dazzling study of Rimbaud.
“Poetry must be utterly natural like the wind, stars, clouds and grass – indistinguishable – present in everything – frozen, hard, like forcelines in a magnetic field bound in star lava.”
Crack, his most recent collection of verse, is an initiation path leading to all extremes.
“To touch what is beyond. The flow of speech is reversed, language disappears in the crack of a mouth. It is a sunstroke.”
Miloslav Topinka lives in Prague.
Miloslav Topinka: The Dada movement in relation to the Czech inter-war avant-garde
02.01.2011 Dada East
"I regard art as a means of expression," says Marcel Duchamp, "and not a goal. One means of expression amongst so many others."
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