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RADOVAN BRENKUS
Radovan Brenkus is a Slovak poet and writer. He was born on the 30th
of January 1974 in Bardejov. He graduated from the Science faculty at P.
J. Šafárik University. He worked as a teacher in Košice, later as a specialist
worker at the Institute of Experimental Physics of Slovak Academy of
Sciences. He founded the Pectus Publishing House and nowadays he
is involved in publishing of original and translation literature. Brenkus
is also the editor for the Slovak literary journal „Dotyky“. Some of his
works have been translated into English, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and
Bulgarian. In 1997 Radovan Brenkus debuted by book of poetry March of
the Dead, then offered to readers poetic collections such as Requiem in
the Dust (2002), Romance with a will-o’-the-wisp (2005) and Smoke from
the Realm of Shadows (2009).
Casting down the nests
We will gain what is later.
Scattering of ash by the wind.
Cloudless and dead calm:
in the evening they found dried-out flowers
below the crosses all turned back-to-front.
Birds sprinkle themselves with seed.
Don’t search for me in the wind,
when you cry,
by disappearing I will appear in you.
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