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Vanishing Lung Syndrome confirms Holub's special status as one of Europe's leading poets and as a rare mediator between scientific and literary modes of discourse. This book is darkly witty and mordantly accurate; it documents, among other things, the ignorance, folly and brutality abroad in our world. But it also brims with tenderness, humor, and occasional gleams of hope. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)891.8615Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) Czech Czech poetry 1900–1989Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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1751
That year Diderot began to publish his Encyclopaedia,
and the first insane asylum was founded in London.
So the counting out began, to separate the sane, who
veil themselves in words, from the insane, who rip off
feathers from their bodies.
Poets had to learn tightrope-walking.
And to make sure, officious types began to publish
instructions on how to be normal.
This is one of my favourite poems – ever. It hits me emotionally, it hits me logically, and it is just this book’s opening volley.
Vanishing Lung Syndrome, is a radiological syndrome in which the lungs appear to be disappearing on X-ray. The syndrome is characterized by a progressive decrease in the radiographic opacity of the lung. Causes include the accelerated progression of emphysema destroying the lung or the rapid cystic destruction of the lung by infection. It’s use as a title for a collection of poetry, declares it’s authors scientific vocation,
Miroslav Holub was born in 1923 in Plzen,(Pilsen Czech Republic) western Bohemia, the only child of a lawyer and a high school teacher of French and German. He attended a gymnasium specializing in Latin and Greek. After the war he studied medicine at Charles University, Prague, working in the department of philosophy and the history of science, and also working in the psychiatric dep’t. He became an MD in 1953. In 1954 he joined the immunological section of the Czechoslovakian Academy of Science and obtained his PHD.
It was in his student years that he started writing poetry, and also became an editor of the scientific magazine Vesmir, New Scientist. In 1954 he obtained his PHD and also published his first collection of poetry establishing what would become the twin paths of his life & going on to become the Czech republic’s most important poets and also one of her leading scientists, publishing many short essays on various aspects of science, particularly biology and medicine (specifically immunology) and life, as well as poetry.
Vanishing Lung Syndrome is divided into four sections
Syncope = Episodic interruption of the stream of consciousness induced by lack of oxygen in the brain.
Symptom = A sign of physical or mental disturbance leading usually to a patient’s complaint.
Syndrome = A group of symptoms and objective signs characterizing a disease or a defect of a structure or function.
Synapse = 1)The region of communication between two neurons. 2) The linkage between parental chromosomes preserving their individual identities.
It is through these that he asks what poets are, or what poetry means, using the language as a scientific instrument to discern and dissect it’s value, constantly stretching and challenging our conception and our assumptions about poetry. It is this rigour combined with an eloquence that just stuns, that makes this a collection of poetry that I constantly return to.
Written whilst Czechoslovakia was still under communist rule and before the Velvet Revolution of 1989, through these poems Holub uses a humour as sharp as one of his scalpels to record the blunt, brutal absurdity of the modern world, and yet, although dark, and at times despairing, they are not without hope, it shines with a warmth and benevolence, that breaks the heart.
Spacetime
When I grow up and you get small,
then--
(In Kaluza’s theory the fifth dimension
is represented as a circle
associated with every point
in spacetime)
-- then when I die, I’ll never be alive again?
Never.
Never never?
Never never.
Yes, but never never never?
No …. not never never never,
just never never.
So we made
a small family contribution
to the quantum problem of eleven-dimensional
supergravity.
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