Jiří H. Krchovský

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Dvojité dno Dvojité dno
Dvojité dno
Host, 2010, 80 pp
Poetry

The poet J. H. Krchovský (1960) came out of the Czechoslovak underground culture and has close ties to music (he performs in the musical group, Krch-off Band). He gathered his work from the 70s and 80s into a three-hundred-page volume called Básně (1998). His more recent poetry has been presented in the titles Poslední list (2003), Nad jedním světem (2004), and Dvojité dno . Writing in a neo-decadent style and in virtuoso rhymed verse, Krchovský’s chosen topics are love and death, which he presents against a trashy, expressively stylised backdrop. He confronts self-deification with feelings of distress and futility, dissolving the fear of nothingness into a stream of black humour and absurdity. Krchovský belongs to the most distinctive figures of Czech poetry from the last half-century.

Dvojité dno
Host, 2010, 80 pp