Where Everyone Leaves, Never to Return

(English and Czech)

By: Bronislava Volkov

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Paperback | 22 June 2023

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110 Pages

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22.8 x 15.2 x 0.6

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Where Everyone Leaves, Never to Return is a captivating collection of poems in which Czech poet Bronislava Volkov, a jongleur of contemporary verse, masterfully combines voice and nuance as she saunters through love, loss, mortality, and eternal life. With a sharp wit, her verses render playful catechisms of why "a loving God can make an unloving man " but they also dive deep into self-discovery, achieving, even if just for an instant, the hard-earned right to a "joyous spirit of inner being." Her work is a testament to her life lived in full--a diverse and all-encompassing experience.

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"Bronislava Volkova traipses her diverse poetic creations from place to place, from tongue to tongue, to survive. She is a magician of change. She pours sound and meaning between lake and mountain, and they rebound like chanting on a star. Hear the lyrical narration. Hear the profound emotion encased in the experience of the elegant survivor. Her words echo with wisdom and grace, her images stun through a photographer's sharp lens, and the poetic song never ceases."

- Willis Barnstone, Author of Stickball on 88th Street

"Verses of Bronislava Volkováaacute; are a universe of the soul. They are formable, creating a space where brevity and eternity coexist with metaphysics and a most realistic, genuine, and fully lived life. In order to write like this, a special gift is needed. The poet herself has to become a work of art. If we open, for example, a volume of Walt Whitman and then we turn right away to Bronislava Volková’s verses, we will under-stand what contemporary poetry is. An extreme laconism and concentration of life. And at the same time an understatement. A density of speech, with air between the lines."

—Aleksandr Karpenko - Author of Wind of Wounds

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