Jaroslav Kovanda

Jacob´s Stepladder

Jákobův dvoják Jákobův dvoják
Jákobův dvoják
Pulchra, 2013, 150 pp
Poetry

In the postscript to this work Jan Šulc writes:

“The poetry collection Jákobův dvoják takes Kovanda’s yearning for completeness even further: not just one person, one family experience, one part of history, though of course all that is there too, but also movement from place to place, from country to country, from century to century, from moments caught in detail to long contemplations, from the period documentary to a quotation from a conversation with a friend, from privacy to a famous work of art and from the desire to be an epic narrator (and what a narrator!) (see his return to Svedrup inter alia) to a subtle lyrical passage, from political reports to the most intimate and purely personal… Jaroslav Kovanda cannot and does not wish to simplify, harmonize or pacify the world. He is enveloped by the endless complexity of everything around him and he only wants to address it, uncorrupted, harrowing and ambiguous as it is.”

Jákobův dvoják
Pulchra, 2013, 150 pp