| Description |
1 online resource (323 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preamble -- Part One | The mirror of time -- Parrots and monkeys -- The first palm -- Where grenades fall, there green palms grow -- First Excursion | Parrots on motorcycles: exoticisms of the Czech avant-garde in the 1920s -- Metaphors, dreams, travel -- Workers ... Indians! -- Through the train window-Don't worry, I am not going to Paris -- Second Excursion | His head that watches us over the century's edge: poetic travels in the nineteenth century -- The notebook that he lost somewhere on the ship |
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With the ship that carries tea and coffee -- Half-black, you understand? Here you have to be careful! -- New Icarus and the mestiza My Beautiful Arsiti -- Again some Malay landscape -- The jungle around us -- Sailors of all seas unite! -- Your longest and most adventurous journey -- Again and again man is proving that he has no wings -- Part Two | A hundred rose petals, on them no words -- Silences -- Sounds, smells, tastes -- Typography-optic configurations -- Photographs, cinema, and the magazine Home and the World -- Picture postcards |
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Snapshots and reflections: poetry | travel | photography | death -- Author's note on translations and sources -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Czech poetry.
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Czech poetry. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: ázek, Jan On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle Prague : Karolinum Press,c2022 9788024651125 |
| ISBN |
9788024651262 (electronic book) |
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8024651262 (electronic book) |
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9788024651125 |
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