21/01/2021 | 2 Comments

Nezval in B O D Y

I greet your gliding flight O wings of death
Those who resisted it
Have purple faces
Have bloodshot eyes like a withering grape leaf

– from the latest offering in the Winter 2021 Issue of B O D Y is a poem titled “The Trapdoor”, excerpted from the 1936 work of poet Vítězslav Nezval, Woman in the Plural, translated from the Czech by Stephan Delbos and Tereza Veverka Novická.

This is the second collection the duo has translated by Nezval, the other being The Absolute Gravedigger (1937). Both books are published by Twisted Spoon Press.