A collection of poetry where existential images of people today mingle with messages from ancient times.
Poetry
This unsettled, fragmentary collection divided into five sections is an image of the restless, incomplete and disconnected nature of a confused and lost world. The central section is the eponymous seven-part poem filled with scraps of speech, announcements and appeals. The composition of the collection is based on the recurring motif of moving, putting down and lifting objects, as well as on the motifs of everyday endeavours – the painful and laborious effort to force oneself on a little further – which are so characteristic of Hruška’s poetic. Surprisingly, however, there is a new motif in Hruška’s latest collection: an allusion to obscure fragments of ancient clay tablets in an integrated series of nine poems entitled “Hliněná tabulka” (The Clay Tablet). The missing passages in them are destroyed, broken, illegible, fragmentary, unfinished, damaged… It’s just as well that filling in the gaps in stories is second nature to humans and that incompleteness has its appeal.