Miroslav Holub
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Miroslav Holub (13 September 1923 Plzeň - 14 July 1998) was a Czech poet and immunologist.
Miroslav Holub's almost always unrhymed poetry lends itself easily to translation. It has been translated into more than 30 languages and is especially popular in the English-speaking world.
In addition to poetry, Holub wrote many short essays on various aspects of science, particularly biology and medicine (specifically immunology) and life. A collection of these, titled The Dimension of the Present Moment, is still in print.
- See Intensive Care: Selected and New Poems, ed. David Young (Oberlin College Press, 1996). ISBN 0932440762
- See Vanishing Lung Syndrome, trans. David Young and Dana Habova (Oberlin College Press, 1990). ISBN 0932440525
[edit] External links
- Monographic academic article
- Miroslav Holub at the complete review - many further links
- Another meta-page with links to many poems
- Brief talk quoting his poem Ode to joy
- Biography in Czech
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