Parrot on a motorcycle
Subtitle: on poetic craft
By: Vítězslav Nezval ; translated by Jennifer Rogers
Contributors: Rogers, Jennifer, tr; Mees, Amy, book designer; Wagner, Mark, book designer; Ugly Duckling Presse; X-ing Books
Series: Eastern European poets series -- no. 25 = -- Edice východ evropských básníchů -- no. 25; Eastern European poets series -- #25.
Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Brooklyn, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Poetics
Other titles: Papoušek na motocyklu :
Work titles: Papoušek na motocyklu
Notes: "Written in 1924 as a prose-poem like manifesto. In this work, Nezval demonstrates the means of fast association and free ideas, which he advocated in his descriptions of Poetism, through an unusual style and layout"--Publisher's description.

Covers letterpress printed by X-ing Books, interior laserprinted, saddle-stitched tête bêche binding ; design by Amy Mees and Mark Wagner of X-ing Books.

Limited edition of 500 copies.

English and Czech texts bound tête-bêche.