Wilsonova mlžná komora – Vodička Miloš (2008)

The Pardubice poet Miloš Vodička is connected to the spiritual and literary generation that gathered around the Vokolek brothers in the 1960s. Among them were the prematurely deceased Jiří Pištora, Petr Kabeš, and Jiří Gruša. The tragic undertone of Vodička's lyrical work was foreshadowed by the imprisonment of his father when the poet was only twelve years old. Vodička's father was a fellow prisoner of Josef Palivec, Bedřich Fučík, Jan Zahradníček, and František Křelina. It was, among other things, Zahradníček's Znamení moci that led Miloš Vodička to poetry. Other inspirations and initiations included the works of Jiří Kolář, Jan Zábrana, Karel Hynek, Zbyněk Havlíček, and experimental poetry, which focused on language and its presentation as a distinctly lyrical medium. Since the publication of his debut Vítr kolem tepen (1965), Vodička published nine poetry books by 1989, of which the most famous is probably the collection Čarodějnice z Blois from 1969. Following this harvest, reissued in the volume Básně (Host, 1997), Vodička continued with the collection Nápory paměti (1995), which in many ways signals a life assessment. Now, the nearly seventy-year-old poet presents a unique attempt at memoirs in the book Wilsonova mlžná komora. Although his memoirs...