Title: Tajomstvá dokorán (Secrets Wide Open)
Description: Selected poems by one of the leading living poets in Slovakia, with a new cycle of poems called COME ON, WE SHOOT AHEAD. Richter has gained reputation with his poems on the Holocaust and poems against the Communist regime. Poems such as "Korene vo vzduchu" "Stara mama Deutschova", "Svate miesta" or "Ale musim", "Nikdy o druhej u Kona" can be found also in English, French, German or Spanish versions in Richter's volumes of selected poems (Five Seasons of Life; Die Wurzeln in der Luft; El silencio de los arboles en Hyde Park).
More on Richter's poetry: http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/52064/1/Hudecova_umn_0130E_10358.pdf
Subjects: Holocaust, anti-Communist, roots, grandmother
Places: Stockholm, Oslo, Prague
People: Tranströmer, Amichai
Time periods: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s